Jaarlijkse schoonmaakactie in Hersonissos
Zowel op Kreta als op het vasteland van Griekenland wordt opgeruimd !
Met prikstok en vuilniszak op pad.
A virtual army of volunteers, outfitted with protective gloves and armed with huge trash bags, attacked the beaches of many Cretan townships as part of the annual “Clean up the Mediterranean” campaign.
In Hersonissos, the municipality organized the initiative by putting together teams of volunteers from the ranks of students and residents, and working together with hotels, local businesses and environmental associations.
 Strand van Hersonissos wordt opgeruimd
Also, in its continuing effort of sensitizing the world on environmental issues, the municipality introduced programmes that included: the briefing of schoolchildren on the “Clean up the Med” campaign; a creative workshop with the participation of children from the Hersonissos day care centre and from the Analipsis primary school, working together with the marine research institute and Cretaquarium; a visit by municipal school students to hotels for a demonstration of their biological cleaning systems; cleaning of beaches in the coastal area of the Hersonissos municipality, and the cleaning of the harbour with a team of divers.
The Hersonissos municipality encourages hotels, environmental and other associations, students and volunteering citizens to participate every year at the three-day event held in May.
 Enthousiasme op Kreta
On the Greek mainland and other islands, similar events took place, which were supported by the “Greek Company for the Protection of Nature” and the network “Volunteering and Natural Environment.”
Throughout the Mediterranean, more than 100,000 volunteers from over 1,500 locations took part in this year’s campaign, which involved every country that borders the Mediterranean Sea, removing as much litter as possible from both popular seaside places and sensitive marine reserves.
“Clean Up the Med” is one of the largest volunteer environmental campaigns in the world, aiming to clean up the Mediterranean coastline from rubbish, and conserve our local environment.
In total, more than 280 environmentalist organizations, hotel chains, municipalities, and schools, from Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Egypt, France, Jordan, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, FYROM, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Syria, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey, as well as Greece, participated.
The combined action is organized by LEGAMBIENTE, the most diffused environmentalist organization in Italy, which has been operating since 1995 to join ecological organizations for a great common action of cleaning up with excellent results.
The ultimate aim of this event is to remind everybody that sea pollution is not accidental, but it comes from how people act daily on earth and the sea.
Human activities like illegal fishing, urbanization, illegal dumping, oil tanker transportation and the consequences of climate change threaten the amazing diversity of animal and plant species in the Med.
For these reasons, Clean up the Med also includes educational
| 
