Singapore Marine Webinar #01 conservation sustainability on the water

April 1, 2021

Singapore Marine Webinar #01 – Conservation and Sustainability on the Water

Wednesday 31 March 2021 – Completed
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Focus Topic: Conservation and Sustainability on the Water
Host Partner: ONE15 Marina
Sponsor: Epic Water Filters

To discuss this all important topic of protecting our seas, we have a diverse speaking panel who will cover all aspect of keeping our waterways clean and rich with marine life. Whether you work in the marine industry or enjoy the marine lifestyle, this topic will touch upon everyones interest in reducing our own personal impact on the environment.

Speakers:
James Roy, ONE15 Marina
– How marina’s can play a role in reducing single-use rubbish going out to sea
Mathilda D’Silva, Ocean Purpose Project
– Turning rubbish into fuel – Bioplastics – Behaviour Changes
Stephen Beng, Friends of Marine Park Community
– How the marine park research has helped bring ocean life back to Singapore
Sue Ye, Marine Stewards
Citizen science reporting – Research expeditions

This session was certainly motivated by our local boating community coming together to clean up Pulau Hantu, Singapore. In total we have picked up over 3,000kg of rubbish off the beautiful tropical island, environmentally it probably made no real impact, but while you are there with your hands dirty, surrounded by dead fish and plastic bottles, you realise you also bought that same plastic bottle last week, you eat fish from that fish farm over there before. So as an individual, what are you doing to minimise/eliminate our own impact on the environment.

Everyday groups of boaters, crew and charterers going down to the docks and out to sea with plastic bags of plastic stuff and plastic cases of plastic bottles. Unfortunately it is tough culturally and for convenience, but hopefully as a community we can discuss openly and consistent ways that we can minimise our impact on the environment.