We Are At The Same Boat
Blue school
Dear friends,
Our initiatives of the "Nesting Island Maintenance" and the "Toad Taxi" have been put into an international EU4OCEAN competition.To vote for our initiative please click......and choose our project: "WE ARE ON THE SAME BOAT" with other 5 initiatives according to your liking.I chose these:Study the Marine Litter Dispersion- student initiative from Italy which monitors the sea currents by tracking a heap of drifting litter via gpsCostal Code for the Bay of Santander- local initiative in Santander (Spain) of creating a code for responsible use of their beautiful bayHealthy Fish in clean seas, healthy people and green economy- school initiative from Anthousa (Greece) focused on learning about the life of fishermen, the craft of fishing and fish food preparationRefill Cyprus- local initiative in Cyprus promoting the repeated usage of plastic by collecting plastic bottles and refilling them with filtered water or liquid cosmetics on newly built "re-filling stations"WE ARE ON THE SAME BOAT- this is our project from Senica - vote for it, please :) - we focus on direct help to nesting birds and migrating amphibians organizing an off-season "Nesting Island Maintenance" for water and sea birds and running a "Toad Taxi" offering help to migrating amphibians from under the car tyresRevolution is in the Hair- local initiative from Strasbourg which uses the hair and fur collected form hairdressers and animal care centers to produce alternative cleaning tools from this collected waste.You can find a thorough list of competing projects here:Good News:Thanks to our involvement in learning about and offering direct help to the water environment, our school has become part of European Blue Schools Network - an open initiative supporting education towards blue economy and blue literacy at schools.