Environment Minister Peter Garrett launched Coastcare Week at Collaroy Beach in northern Sydney today and Heidi Taylor was there as one of the spokewomen on behalf of Tangaora Blue Ocean Care Society and Coastcare. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper was there to feature the event and you can read there article on the coverage of the event below:

Photo: The Coastcare crew with Minister of Environment, Peter Garrett.

Visit the Coastcare website here.

View the article "Lending a hand to save the sand " by Ellie Harvey of the Sydney Morning Herald on the Coastcare website here .

View the article "Lending a hand to save the sand " by Ellie Harvey of the Sydney Morning Herald on the SMH website here .

For those of you in tropical Far North Queensland, our marine debris project will be launched this weekend with the first clean up event. Coinciding with the International Year of the Reef Festival in Port Douglas, Tangaroa Blue will coordinate a beach clean up event along Four Mile Beach and the Marina in Port Douglas.

To participate just turn up at one of the 5 clean up muster stations at 9am to register. All materials will be provided and a free sausage sizzle voucher will be given to all volunteers. There are also a load of events happening over the weekend including a climate change forum and underwater film festival.

The Cape to Cape Beach Clean Up 2008 was held over the weekend of October 11 and 12. We had an amazing response with over 500 volunteers helping to clean beaches from Augusta to Mandurah in Western Australia!

Over the next week 8 schools from Dunsborough to Augusta will be participating in clean ups and presentations on marine debris turning the clean up weekend into a week long event!

We will be collating data over the next few weeks and put together a report on everything we found.

Thank you to all volunteers and supporters for the help in making this year's clean up the most successful event!

Keep posted for further information on what was found.