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Stream Clean Up at UMD - Taken 10/20/2018 (SDG 15)
This is a picture of me picking up a brick near Paint Branch Creek during a stream clean up event hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. This exemplifies community activism in protecting and restoring terrestrial ecosystems through action and will, as laid out in SDG 15. During the clean up we removed a lot of plastic materials like cups and straws, which could easily make its way into the creek and degrade into microplastics, which can make its way into complex aquatic food webs and potentially poison animals, as well as contribute even more to pollution in our waterways. We also picked up many metal items such as beer cans that could have potentially gotten small local wildlife stuck, as well as leeched excess metals into the surrounding soil, rendering plant growth difficult due to the changes in nutrient intake and microbial diversity (Source:www.hindawi.com/journals/aess/2014/752708/). Overall, stream clean ups like these are an important tool in protecting the land around us and allowing people to get involved in caring for nature and considering the ecological impacts of our lifestyles.
Stream Clean Up at UMD - Taken 10/20/2018 (SDG 15)
This is a picture of me picking up a brick near Paint Branch Creek during a stream clean up event hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. This exemplifies community activism in protecting and restoring terrestrial ecosystems through action and will, as laid out in SDG 15. During the clean up we removed a lot of plastic materials like cups and straws, which could easily make its way into the creek and degrade into microplastics, which can make its way into complex aquatic food webs and potentially poison animals, as well as contribute even more to pollution in our waterways. We also picked up many metal items such as beer cans that could have potentially gotten small local wildlife stuck, as well as leeched excess metals into the surrounding soil, rendering plant growth difficult due to the changes in nutrient intake and microbial diversity (Source:www.hindawi.com/journals/aess/2014/752708/). Overall, stream clean ups like these are an important tool in protecting the land around us and allowing people to get involved in caring for nature and considering the ecological impacts of our lifestyles.