Puget Sound Community Change (PSCC)
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This group (home page) is focused on bringing more mindfullness to the marketplace and promotes shopping at locally owned and sustainability-minded businesses by rewarding customers and donating to their favorite causes. The program directs money to local non-profits and businesses and creates a way for citizen-consumers to make choices about their spending ...learn more
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Created: Sep 16, 2007
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
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The Ghost Net Project is for people from (Indigenous) communities all around the Gulf of Carpentaria to find ways to work together to get rid of marine debris in their sea country.
In Northern Australia Indigenous Sea Rangers noted that many turtles were being captured in ghost nets that were washing up on the beaches. As much of this coastline is the breeding and foraging ground for 6 culturally and ecologically important species of marine turtle there was a real concern that so many were getting trapped and dying.
The Rangers collaborated with other non-government organisations, calling themselves “the saltwater people”; a name which recognises the shared concerns & custodianship for marine wildlife.
The aim of the project is three fold:
- To clean up the coastline in the Gulf of Carpentaria of existing nets to stop them re-entering the ocean,
- To collect useful information about these nets to assist negotiations by various parties in stopping fishing nets becoming Ghost Nets, &
- Capacity building of Indigenous Rangers to continue work on ghost nets beyond the life of this project.
In Northern Australia Indigenous Sea Rangers noted that many turtles were being captured in ghost nets that were washing up on the beaches. As much of this coastline is the breeding and foraging ground for 6 culturally and ecologically important species of marine turtle there was a real concern that so many were getting trapped and dying.
The Rangers collaborated with other non-government organisations, calling themselves “the saltwater people”; a name which recognises the shared concerns & custodianship for marine wildlife.
The aim of the project is three fold:
- To clean up the coastline in the Gulf of Carpentaria of existing nets to stop them re-entering the ocean,
- To collect useful information about these nets to assist negotiations by various parties in stopping fishing nets becoming Ghost Nets, &
- Capacity building of Indigenous Rangers to continue work on ghost nets beyond the life of this project.