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16 August 2006
Manila harbour slideshow
These pictures cannot leave anybody indifferent. A bay where you can hardly see the water because there is so much rubbish floating on it. Mangroves, strangled under torn plastic bags, some still struggling to survive. And in between a handfull of dedicated activists trying to make a difference... Greenpeace photographer Gavin Newman has captured how marine pollution has already destroyed what was once alive and beautiful. His slides are an appeal to stop this - and to start caring for our sea, because we need it.
© Greenpeace / Gavin Newman
16th August 2006 - MANILA BAY, PHILIPPINES
Greenpeace volunteers collect plastic rubbish from Manila Bay, Philippines. Manila Bay, once a beauty spot has become one of the most polluted body of water in Asia where sludge, human waste and industrial waste have formed a floating dump.
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you are fantastic. go on. we need you.
thank you for you do. the world is going wrong. we all know it but so few try to do something.
Posted by: martine at August 17, 2006 10:08 AM
Oh my god! This makes a pig seem clean. Dump it where it came from! People in political positions need to get it back on their lawn to understand!
Posted by: Martin Gustavsson at August 17, 2006 1:29 PM
this is a sad situation for the filipino people and the world to see it is a horrible condition of our seashores, bays and oceans, it just reflects how the government is at its worst, the president arroyo should go surf on this dispecable beaches and see it for herself smell the odor a taste the salty and contaminated water. enjoy mrs. president. i'm glad i don't live there anymore. i left the philippines for a better life.
Posted by: george lumicao at August 17, 2006 9:59 PM
Keep up the hard work xx
Posted by: Jodie at August 18, 2006 12:51 PM
I know I'm far away from this dump, but I can nearly smell it through my sound speakers. Many politicians just think that the 'modern conveniences' and short-time gain can make up for natural beauty, take the Rapu Rapu mining operation as an example
Posted by: Petr at August 18, 2006 1:24 PM
For all those who have seen the above pictures,
How could could we say that we are happy not to live in the Philippines anymore because of the dump? WHAT A SHAME!
THIS IS OUR LAND, WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
WHO WILL ACT IF WE DO NOT START, WHO WILL START IF WE DO NOT START?
Posted by: lisa at September 26, 2006 2:33 PM
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