1st December 2012, i have organized a beach cleaning project at Tanjung Lipat beach with the name of University Malaysia Sabah. This project also aim to collect trash effectively and to maintain beautiful and safe beaches in this "Land Below the Wind".
This place is less favorite by the public because it doesn't have good facilities for BBQ, and not even have a toilet. Thus it became more and more polluted since nobody visit there and the government didn't conserve this beach. It is so sad to see the beach is full of plastic bags, the trashes did not left on the surface, instead it got buried into the sand. Which mean it is already here for long period of time already. We believe that the plastic bag doesn't come from the beach, it is actually rubbish from the river, and also from another island.
All photos were taken with Nikon D80/ D7000 with Nikon 18-200mm VR, Nikon 35mm f1.8, and Tamron 11-18mm.
Photos credit goes to our official photographer, Mr Seah Chia Yee, visit his Facebook to see more of his work and portfolio!
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| Can imagine this is the beach of KK city? |
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| A group photo before we start our cleaning work! |
With more than a week preparation, i created this project and urge the public and also UMS students to join this program by raising awareness. Maybe the effort is not enough, me and my group member only manage to find 40people to join this activity. Special Thanks to Liza - my house lady who helped to prepare sandwiches and promote this project to her brothers and sisters from the church. It will not be so successful without her commitment!
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| Our brothers from the States did not hesitate to help this project out! |
We started the activity by giving a simple briefing about the aim and objectives of this project, followed by distributing refreshment and drinks. Then we give every participants gloves and plastic bag to collect the trashes. We started approximately at 0830, sooner or later other participants arrive to the place too!
Everyone have been very participative throughout the project, we chat, and spend good time together doing something meaningful.
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| A first year student that have passionate heart toward environmental conservation. |
It is really sad to see this beach surrounded by countless pieces of rubbish, no one really bother about this beach. The pollution will not only affect marine life such as turtle, it also dangerously affecting tourism in Kota Kinabalu. If the beach is so dirty, tourists will have bad perception toward KK beaches, through word of mouth, no one will like to visit to our country in the future! The government should really do something about this!
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| Parker and my house lady - Liza at the beach. |
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| PR Group mate. |
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| Photogenic one >.< |
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| Spot any differences now? |
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| A first year student that have passionate heart toward environmental conservation. |
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| Sister Caballa from Hawaii! Welcome to Malaysia! |
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| Li Yi have a very clean glove. o.O (what does that mean?) |
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| Sister Wilson from Virginia, she's half Korean half Cuba! |
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| Kevin! my teammate who came and support me for this project! |
After 2 and a half hours of cleaning work, the weather got really warm and we have to stop working on it. We felt so relief and proud to see how much rubbish we have collected, more than 10Bags of rubbish weighted more than 100KGs have been collected throughout this activity! We work hard under the hot sun and we felt satisfied with our contribution. Nothing beats the determination of the participants, they wanted to continue but i promised them that we will have second round of beach cleaning in near future, then only they stop!
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| Gathering all the trashes. |
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| i can't even carry a bag of trashes, its sooo heavy! |
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The place after the clean up.
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| After the cleanup. |
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| Participants that stay with us til the last moment of the project, and more than 10bags of trashes. |
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Most participative "cleaner", won the hamper prepared by us!
The project went well, we have more than 40people from different races, religion, and background came and work this out together! Successfully collected more than 100KGs trashes from the beach.
Glad that you guys joined us. Definitely gonna do this again in near future!!!
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1st December 2012, i have organized a beach cleaning project at Tanjung Lipat beach with the name of University Malaysia Sabah. This proj...
