Ocean Cleanup: Protecting Our Blue Home
We are committed to protecting the marine environment. Through the following actions, we strive to bring life back to the ocean:
- Regular beach cleaning activities: We invite volunteers to join us in cleaning the coastline, restoring the beaches to their pristine state.
- Promoting coastal and underwater cleaning activities: We organize volunteer teams to remove coastal trash and collaborate with professional divers to clean up marine debris from the seabed.
- Collaborating with divers to remove “ghost nets”: These abandoned fishing nets pose a serious threat to marine life. We work with professional divers to remove them from the seabed, protecting the marine ecosystem.
Join us, let’s protect the ocean together, and bring life back to it!
Using Art as a Bridge to Promote Ocean Culture Popularization:
Hong Kong International Ocean Art Festival
To promote ocean culture and enhance public awareness of the ocean and its protection, we propose an annual “Hong Kong International Ocean Art Festival.” This festival will use art as a medium to allow citizens to access ocean information from multiple perspectives, encouraging them to protect the ocean through their daily actions.
Goals:
- Increase public participation: Engage more people in ocean cultural activities, not just divers and ocean users, but allow everyone to understand the importance of the ocean through art, culture, and everyday life.
- Expand reach: Utilize diverse artistic forms to make ocean information accessible to citizens of all ages, backgrounds, and interests, promoting ocean culture popularization.
- Call for action: Integrate the concept of ocean protection into artistic works and activities, encouraging citizens to make changes in their daily lives, such as reducing plastic use, conserving water, and working together to protect the ocean.
Activities:
- Art Exhibition: Invite local and international artists to create ocean-themed works, showcasing art in various mediums such as painting, sculpture, photography, and installation art, allowing citizens to appreciate the beauty of the ocean from an artistic perspective and reflect on the relationship between humans and the ocean.
- Ocean Film Festival: Screen ocean-themed documentaries, feature films, and animated films, allowing viewers to understand marine ecosystems, environmental issues, and ocean culture, inspiring their interest and awareness of the ocean.
- Ocean Workshops: Organize various ocean workshops, such as marine life drawing, ocean trash creation, and ocean conservation lectures, allowing citizens to experience ocean culture firsthand and learn how to protect the ocean.
- Ocean Market: Invite ocean-related businesses and organizations to participate, showcasing ocean-friendly products, promoting ocean conservation concepts, and allowing citizens to gain a deeper understanding of ocean culture and the importance of ocean protection.
(More activities to be announced…)
Through the Hong Kong International Ocean Art Festival, we can integrate ocean culture into everyday life, allowing everyone to become guardians of the ocean.
Through Community Engagement, Enhance Local Community Awareness of Ocean Conservation and Encourage Active Participation.
Ocean Conservation Volunteer Team: Recruit volunteers to join the Ocean Conservation Volunteer Team, participating in various ocean conservation activities.
Online Platform: Establish an online platform to provide ocean cultural information, activity information, and participation methods, making it convenient for citizens to stay updated.
Ocean Conservation Themed Events: Organize ocean conservation themed events, such as ocean conservation concerts, ocean conservation film festivals, etc., attracting more people to participate.
Collaboration with Schools: Collaborate with schools to integrate ocean culture into campus activities, allowing students to learn about the ocean from a young age and cultivate a sense of ocean protection.
Collaboration with Businesses: Collaborate with businesses to promote the concept of ocean conservation, encouraging businesses to adopt environmentally friendly measures.
Community Collaboration: Collaborate with community organizations to organize ocean cultural activities, making it easier for citizens to access ocean information.
Media Promotion: Promote activities through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, attracting more citizens to participate.
Activities need to be continuously promoted to truly achieve the goal of ocean conservation
Let Ocean Conservation Shine in Education.
Ocean conservation education is not just about knowledge transfer, but more importantly, about cultivating students' love and responsibility for the ocean, making them the future force in protecting the ocean.
- Starting from the Campus, Implementing Action：
Beach cleaning, coastal cleaning activities: Allow students to experience firsthand the severity of ocean pollution and participate in beach cleanup actions, learning the importance of environmental protection through action.
Ocean trash environmental protection workshops: Through interactive games, model making, and other methods, allow students to understand the sources and harm of ocean trash, learning how to reduce plastic use, properly sort trash, and other environmental knowledge.
Marine life conservation courses: Invite marine biologists or conservation experts to introduce the diversity of marine life, the fragility of marine ecosystems, and the impact of human activities on the ocean in an easy-to-understand way, enhancing students’ ocean conservation awareness.
- Daily Life, Implementing Environmental Actions：
Reduce plastic use: Encourage students to bring their own reusable lunchboxes, shopping bags, reduce the use of disposable plastic products, and promote ocean-friendly consumption habits.
Water conservation, energy conservation: Allow students to understand the relationship between water resources and the ocean, and implement water conservation and energy conservation habits in their daily lives, reducing the burden on the marine environment.
Ocean-friendly tourism: Promote ocean-friendly tourism methods, such as choosing non-polluting diving methods, not buying marine life souvenirs, etc., reducing the impact on marine ecosystems.
- Cultivating Professional Talent, Opening Up Ocean Careers：
New generation diver training: Offer diving courses to cultivate students to become professional ocean conservationists, providing related knowledge and skills in marine ecological surveys, underwater photography, etc.
Ocean-related industry job opportunities: Introduce the development trends of ocean conservation-related industries, such as marine biological research, marine engineering, marine tourism, etc., encouraging students to combine their interests and aspirations to engage in ocean conservation-related fields.
Let ocean conservation become a lifestyle, from campus to society, working together to protect our ocean home!
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