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Adur was one of the UK leaders in presenting an environmental exhibition of World Oceans Day on Coronation Green, Shoreham-by-Sea, as part of the Adur Festival | ||||
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Saturday 9 June 2012 Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm 12th
Anniversary
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Coronation
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Events will occur all around the world on and around this day.
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Andy
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There will activities for the younger children, like colouring, face painting and competitions (please enquire for details) to make it a fun day out for all of the family. ADUR WORLD OCEANS
DAY
Adur was one of the UK
leaders in presenting the twelfth environmental exhibition of World Oceans
Day on Coronation Green,
Shoreham-by-Sea.
Find out what lives in the sea and on the seashore off the Sussex coast,
with exhibits hosted by local experts and enthusiasts of the undersea world.
Live lobsters and crabs,
a rock pool aquarium,
the whale and dolphin exhibition, a touch table
of strandline exhibits found on the shore and
other interactive displays will be on display under the marquee on the
green overlooking the River Adur
by the footbridge. Exhibitors were able to find the time to answer
questions about marine life.
Adur World Oceans Day
is run by a committee comprising representatives of the British
Marine Life Study Society, the Sea
Watch Foundation, Friends
of Shoreham Beach, the Ouse & Adur
Rivers Trust and other groups, with support from Adur
District Council.
For 2012 the event took place on the same day as the Adur Farmer's Market |
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8 June 2012
The theme of World Oceans Day, “Our oceans, our responsibility”, emphasizes our individual and collective duty to protect the marine environment and carefully manage its resources. Safe, healthy and productive seas and oceans are integral to human well-being, economic security and sustainable development.
In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly decided that, as from 2009, 8 June would be designated by the United Nations as “World Oceans Day” (resolution 63/111, paragraph 171). Many countries have celebrated World Oceans Day following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, (known as the Earth Summit) which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
The oceans are essential to food security and the health and survival of all life, power our climate and are a critical part of the biosphere. The official designation of World Oceans Day is an opportunity to raise global awareness of the current challenges faced by the international community in connection with the oceans.
United
Nations World Oceans Day page
World Oceans Day – The Ocean Project
It
was the Canadian government, at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio that first
mooted the idea of World Oceans Day. In 1998, UNESCO’s
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission lent its support to this
international Day of celebration.
Since
2003
World Oceans Day has been co-ordinated jointly by the World Ocean Network
and the American association, The Ocean Project.
"The aim of the event is to introduce the young visitors to the world of the sea and seashore, an opportunity they may not get. It is an educational event with an opportunity for children to participate in the interactive activities."
Quote by Andy Horton (British Marine Life Study Society)
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