Crescent Head Public School students are encouraging the community to improve the environment for marine life by starting an innovative campaign to educate local businesses and their customers on the perils of plastics.
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Many of the wonderfully creative children at the school have produced some brilliantly illustrated and educational posters that these businesses now display.
If you’d like students to create originals to place in your own business, you can contact the school on 6566 0255.
The health of our marine life is so critical to the health of our own species, and as we know, we are putting incredible pressures on our environment in so many ways which we need to address as a matter of urgency.
The plastics problem as with many other environmental issues is of paramount importance and we should all try and make an effort in our daily lives to reverse this reliance on these products and eventually do away with them altogether.
Some of the 32000 or so humpback whales that make the yearly pilgrimage from Antarctic waters to the warm waters of the Great Barrier Reef have started to head south again.
These whales leave their summer feeding grounds and swim almost 10000 miles to mate and calve in the calm, warm waters within the reef lagoon.
It is the longest migration of any mammal. During this time they do not feed but rely instead on the fats they have built up during their summer feeding on krill in the Southern Ocean.
On the journey south many whales tend to come very close inshore to teach the new calves important life skills, so this is an ideal opportunity to visit one of our headlands or beaches to view the wonderful sight of these majestic animals frolicking in the seas off our pristine coastline which we are so lucky to still have.
Don’t forget that if you ever see a whale or dolphin in danger, you should call the ORRCA rescue hotline on 02 94153333.
