The Sea Shepherd Remote Marine Debris Campaign team returned to the Yolŋu community of Galiwin’ku on Elcho Island for their second collaboration with the Gumurr Marthakal Rangers last October.
The Sea Shepherd team found that the debris was dominated by single use plastics, bottle tops, personal care items, water bottles, and countless fragments of broken plastic, alongside ghost nets, ropes, and fishing gear discarded by industrial fishing operations.
By the end of the cleanup, the team had removed a staggering 6.5 tonnes of debris, equivalent to 159,000 individual items, from just a 190 metre beach.
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Burke Marine is deeply committed to preserving and protecting our planet's waterways, and proudly supports Sea Shepherd in their mission to clean up our oceans.