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5th of June « Cleaning beaches all together »
As part of United Nations Ocean Week, the Association of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World organized a beach waste collection on June 5, 2024, in the organization’s member bays across the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This international activity was a resounding success.
With the overarching theme: « How to reconcile tourism development and the preservation of ecosystem biodiversity, » all the communities of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World joined forces for a vast, simultaneous cleanup operation, sending a strong signal to the world of their contribution to saving the oceans.
When the bays of Japan and South Korea began this gesture of global solidarity at sunrise, it was still the previous evening in Canada, and the middle of the night in Europe and Africa.
Little by little, European and African volunteers followed in the footsteps of the Asian Bay volunteers, and then their colleagues from the American Bays joined the movement a few hours later.
This great surge of simultaneous solidarity, collecting waste in the oceans, on beaches, in mangroves, parks, and forests, mobilized more than 3,000 people worldwide and enabled the collection and sorting of nearly 20 tons of waste.
A huge thank you to the school children, senior citizens’ associations, elected officials, and all the anonymous volunteers who mobilized to help restore a better future to the oceans and to the entire planet. The President of the Association of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World, Mr. Louis Thébault, declared at the end of this historic day that he was « very proud that the populations of the organization he chairs are participating in such large numbers in the solidarity activities of the United Nations. »
