Public can visit the exhibition within opening hours of the Museum. Visits are proposed on wednesdays, saturdays and sundays afternoon. ity's animated by sustainable development actors of La Rochelle city :LPO, Nature Environnement 17, Les Petits Débrouillards, Les Ambassadrices du tri de la CDA, le PIE, le Relais Nature de La Moulinette et le Muséum

The ticket to the Museum is free for children and students.

Find Surfrider exhibitions' agenda.

Surfrider will lead many discussions group to make the people aware as much as possible about the utmost urgency of the ecological fight in the Basque Country as well as in the others Oceans around the world. Surfrider invites everyone the 26^th and 27^th of September, on the corniche between Abbadia and Socoa, in order to spend an ecologic, festive and friendly week-end!

Every event during this week-end is available for free thanks to the Conseil général des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Do not forget:

Good walking shoes and bottle of water for the walk on Sunday.

To enjoy every event, bring your ID.

Wanted

4 volunteers to make sure that the site remains clean.

Attendance

8am-6pm with many breaks (surf and others)…
The event planners will take care of the accommodation and the meals.

If you wish to participate to this friendly sporting event, please contact Carole Fensterbank, Head of mission Ecosurf.

The beach of Capocotta in Italy (near Rome) is in the lead for the time being. The final results will be announced on July 15^th for a clean-up which will take place on July 23^rd

Surfrider’s “Ocean Initiatives” and Corona’s “Save the Beach” initiative meet the same aim: to increase public awareness on macro-waste pollution threatening the beaches’ natural beauty.

For their first common action, Surfrider and Corona are inviting everyone to participate in the saving of one polluted beach. Members of Surfrider and Corona will supervise the whole operation by providing many fun educational tools to make this moment a great experience for all: kids, families*…anyone who wants to get involved!

To commit further in the environmental preservation, Corona has also decided to support Surfrider’s environmental program called Keepers of the Coast, by financing one of the endangered beaches’ cases by the end of 2010.

As soon as the results of the votes will be officially announced, you will find all the information on the selected beach on the Ocean Initiatives website

* Erratum: the clean-up is forbidden to persons under 18

Where can you find it?

The C.O.D.E de la vague is exclusively relayed by a network of concerned professionals or during various events: sporting events (soccer, rugby, surf...), sustainable development and ecological fairs, school meetings...

For more information on this guide, a press release can be downloaded.

For this occasion, the Association for Youth Challenges for the Development (Association Défis Jeune pour le Développement) organized a large beach clean-up as part of Surfrider’s « Ocean Initiatives », on May 20th, 21st and 22nd in Kindjehoue and Gbecon (region of Grand Popo).

Both May 20^th and 21^st were dedicated to awareness-raising actions for school kids and the general public on coastline preservation. The clean-up strictly speaking, was on May 22^nd: eight teams, each made of about 28 people, shared the cleaning of 8 areas.

The Benin Secretary for Environment and Nature Preservation, along with an important delegation of his cabinet, and the mayor of Grand Popo along with his town council joined the operation to bring their support and pitch in.

Quick summary of the clean-up

• Quantity of collected waste: 1400m3
• Number of filled rubbish bags: 40
• Number of participants: 581 of which 356 school kids.

This action deserves to be rapidly and efficiently extended, so that other “Ocean Initiatives” can be organized in all the other coastal towns of Benin which are slowing to take measures regarding coastline pollution, measures that have been asked for a long time.

Photo caption

1. Max Placide AHOUANSOU (ADJD Executive director)
2. Justin Sossou ADANMAYI (Secretary for Environment and Nature Preservation)
3. Benjamin Clotaire ABLO  (Mayor of Grand Popo)
4. First deputy mayor

Skills

Native bilingual in :English, Portuguese, Italian, Basque, German

For more information about the festival: www.festivaldelaglisse.fr (French)

Action stations!

Armed with rubbish bags, pupils, teachers and the pupils' parents from the Honoré de Balzac school in Mehdia and from the St Exupéry middle school of Rabat, met last Saturday to clean up one of the best Moroccan surf spots.

Hervé Serol, teaching at Kenitra's GSU Balzac who initiated the operation which was also part of the programs of Education to Environment and to Sustainable Development and the school's "Pilot Educational Actions" (on the environment and the fight against pollutions and waste), managed to gather the whole academic team to collect the waste found on the beach of Mehdia.

Results:

• More than 700 participants
• More than 50m3 of collected waste
• A 3 hour-waste collection

Thanks to everyone who rallied for this eco-citizen operation and to the many partners!

Athletes who were making their debut struggled a bit, but kept their smile and everything remained in a friendly mood. The good spirit triggered some cheating from the teams, aiming at slowing their competitors down, however everything went within a great sportsmanship…

Surfrider Foundation followed the event with a stand in the “educational caravan”, along with Moutain Riders, l’Agence  de l’Eau (Water Agency) and the French Surfing Federation. We will retain the success of this first edition which just set the foundations for next year’s rendez-vous.