The transparentsea awareness campaign, which started on October 1st from the beaches of Byron Bay, ended these days on the Sidney seafront, to be precise in Bondi Beach. After 36 days and almost 800km of navigation along the migratory route of the whales, the group of surfers / activists, led by Dave Rastovich, have finally arrived at their destination aboard their trimarans.
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It ended these days on the Sidney waterfront, to be precise a Bondi Beach, the transparentsea awareness campaign, launched on October 1st from the beaches of Byron Bay. After 36 days and almost 800km of navigation along the migratory route of the whales, the group of surfers / activists, led by Dave Rastovich, have finally arrived at their destination aboard their trimarans.
In addition to monitoring the situation of the marine ecosystem along the Australian coasts, the primary objective of the trip was to protest against the environmental protection policy implemented by the Government of Canberra guilty of not paying enough attention to problem of the hunt for cetaceans carried out by Japanese boats in the South Seas.
Dave "Rasta" Rastovich, co-founder of the "Surfers for Cetaceans“, (Among the 300 invited this year to the Summit promoted by Al Gore “The climate project“), urged the Australian public to put pressure on the prime minister Kevin Rudd and to the Minister of the Environment Peter Garrett, who, during the election campaign, had expressed the will of safeguard the South Sea whale sanctuary, the scene of a wild hunt by the Japanese whalers.
"To date", says Rasta, "the commitment made by the two politicians towards our battle has not been fulfilled and we have urged every Australian, most unfortunately not yet aware of the situation, to ask their government to maintain electoral promises and above all immediate action ".
"The situation of the Australian ecosystem" he added "is not the best, we have witnessed beaches that, although without any human footprints and beautiful from a distance, beautiful from a distance, are completely covered with plastic and waste .. the international surfing community wants to be able to surf in harmony with cetaceans in a clean, transparent and protected ocean “.
Transparent, together with Surfriders Foundation e Tangaroa Blue, has promoted campaigns of waste removal from the coasts, collaborating and implementing the National Marine Debris database.
Giacomo Zanni
