History and Position to Date
Reef Clean-up programs had been conducted as part of annual World Environment Day Programs as well as Clean-up Maldives program executed by the Government in 1998. These programs have given us the feeling of marine debris and the impact it has on the reef environment around Male’.
In the past, none of these programs have developed a sustained program whereby any part of the reef has been completely cleaned of the marine debris. The overwhelming amount of debris cover on the western face of Male’ reef has reached an alarming scale. This has been one of the main reasons, which has led us to initiate a well developed clean up program.
PADI Project AWARE in collaboration with MALDIVERS and BLUEPEACE has carried out initial framework development of the Clean-up Program for 2000 among the concerned members of Maldivers, Bluepeace with Mr. Maizan Hassan Maniku, (Studio 1-Maldives) and following Program was detailed.
The Main reason for developing this program has been to carrying out a more organized long-term clean up within the context of the Mission Objectives of Project AWARE as well as to promote clean environment ethics within the habitants of Maldives.