Environment and development in coastal regions and in small islands

CI clean-up promo starts in Alotau

The 'Kanage' personality will be on show in a drama featuring the International PNG Coastal Clean-up promotion sponsored by Conservation International.

Alphonse Diriau, the man popularly known as Kanage will go on show in Alotau. Mr Diriau will travel to Alotau with a Conservation International representative from Port Moresby on Thursday Sept 28. Kanage will perform a drama together with the local Waema Theatre group titled "Plastics", a play designed for the people in Milne Bay to explain why it is important to have a clean coastline.

The other places the team plans to carry out its promotions are Madang, Lae, Kimbe and Lihir.

Conservation International spokesperson Edward Kibikibi said this clean up would help the community and will also boost tourism in the area.
Mr Kibikibi said it was an advantage to the whole community. "It's healthy for businesses and the community. People are looking at the tourists side and saying tourists will think we have unhygenic coastlines but how about ourselves?" "It only takes one silly habit to destroy something that is very delicate because you are careless." He said many people were thinking about other people but not the creatures in the waters at the coastline and the community.

Conservation International works to help conserve the biodiversity worldwide and to preserve threatened ecosystems. They focus their energy on biodiversity hotspots, key marine ecosystems and major tropical wilderness areas. This is the second time CI has embarked on the clean-up.

Source: by Betsy Inuwai in The National, September 2000

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