Pirates of Debris
Pirates of Debris Descending on Recherche Bay
The TLC has been working in partnership with the Bookend Trust since 2011. The Bookend Trust and the TLC have a mutual goal of inspiring students and the wider community to work towards positive solutions to conservation issues through education. Our role in this partnership is to host small groups of high school students at our permanent reserves, providing them with the opportunities to explore and discover the answers to their conservation questions.
The latest project, “Pirates of Debris”, will be led by seven students from the Jordan River Learning Federation, and hosted at TLC’s Recherche Bay Reserve in Tasmania’s far south. This project will explore the subject of marine debris and its effects on the environment. TLC’s Reserve Management Officer, Tim Devereux, will join the project as a qualified guide and to represent the TLC in sharing the Recherche Bay Reserve with the students and the greater community.
The students will provide daily internet updates to the 2,000+ students that follow the project through a program known as ‘Expedition Class’, with many of these students exploring and discovering the topic of marine debris in their local area.
Photo: L to R, Andrew Hughes and the team from Jordan River with TLC's Tim Devereux chart their course to Recherche Bay.Photo credit: Matthew Newton