Clean the nature 2010
18 April 2010
Photo: Campaign picture from DN
The campaign:
The Danish nature conservation association (DN) has the last few years highlighted the problem of waste in the Danish nature with a large national wastecampaign. DN's waste collection clearly shows that the abandonment of waste in the wild is a major problem in Denmark. It also shows that many people where willing help cleaning up nature for nature. About the practical work: It is simply to collect garbage for a few hours for the good cause. Year after year the support for collection increases in the population. In 2009 there were 48.000 participants who collected 173 tons of waste and 152.000 beer/soda cans. (source: DN)
Reasons to join:
Each year you can partcipate and clean your own area.(Create your own support team or join a public group).
If you can't find a support-team near your residence, then visit DN's website.
On this website you can find a great deal of info about the campaign: http://www.hvisduvarenhjort.dk/
You can see the results from 2010 here: http://www.dn.dk/Default.aspx?ID=21288&Purge=True
(In 2010; 116.061 kilos of trash and 147.432 beer/soda cans was collected).
Last updated: 21 April 2010
The Danish nature conservation association (DN) has the last few years highlighted the problem of waste in the Danish nature with a large national wastecampaign. DN's waste collection clearly shows that the abandonment of waste in the wild is a major problem in Denmark. It also shows that many people where willing help cleaning up nature for nature. About the practical work: It is simply to collect garbage for a few hours for the good cause. Year after year the support for collection increases in the population. In 2009 there were 48.000 participants who collected 173 tons of waste and 152.000 beer/soda cans. (source: DN)
Reasons to join:
- Waste harms our groundwater.
- Waste damage our fauna and flora considerably.
- Waste is plain ugly and destroys our natural experiences in the wild.
Each year you can partcipate and clean your own area.(Create your own support team or join a public group).
If you can't find a support-team near your residence, then visit DN's website.
On this website you can find a great deal of info about the campaign: http://www.hvisduvarenhjort.dk/
You can see the results from 2010 here: http://www.dn.dk/Default.aspx?ID=21288&Purge=True
(In 2010; 116.061 kilos of trash and 147.432 beer/soda cans was collected).
Last updated: 21 April 2010
Cleaning teams
Click on the picture to visit the website
Photo: Campaign picture from DN
My participation
I will do my part as well
I have chosen to participate in cleaning up this year. This will participate in an area where i normally go field herpng, the place is visited by many tourists. In this large area a lot of wildlife can be found, both; reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds. I often face garbage in these areas, even barbed wire and fishing lines.
My day collecting trash
Despite several enticing and alluring words to many people, it ended up being me and Christian Nielsen cleaning up alone. (Thanks to Christian Nielsen for the good work).
There were a total of 22.000 people associated with the project throughout the country this year.
There was less waste in the nature than I first anticipated, (which is good)! At the beginning I was sure that it toppled with garbage everywhere, but people apparently thought more about their habits in the wild than previous years. We managed to fill a single stuffed sack - which is a lot of trash when considered how small the places we visited actually was. Plastic and wrappings of various kinds was the trash we encountered most often, but beer/soda cans, ice papers and candybags were found in large numbers as well. We found no trash piles, but there was a lot of shattered Plexiglas in a pile at one of the local Vipera spots. We spent many hours that day and we only cleaned reptiles and amphibians habitats. Anyway, we hope that the animals, (and the nature), appreciate the many people who went out to assist in the good cause; we saw two other teams that day.
Herps on our way:
We took a break and spent acummulated 40 minutes on field herping, we found 6 different species on our way – here are the pictures:
We found: Natrix natrix, Vipera berus, Anguis Fragilis, Rana temporaria, Lissotriton vulgaris og Lissotriton cristatus.
Despite several enticing and alluring words to many people, it ended up being me and Christian Nielsen cleaning up alone. (Thanks to Christian Nielsen for the good work).
There were a total of 22.000 people associated with the project throughout the country this year.
There was less waste in the nature than I first anticipated, (which is good)! At the beginning I was sure that it toppled with garbage everywhere, but people apparently thought more about their habits in the wild than previous years. We managed to fill a single stuffed sack - which is a lot of trash when considered how small the places we visited actually was. Plastic and wrappings of various kinds was the trash we encountered most often, but beer/soda cans, ice papers and candybags were found in large numbers as well. We found no trash piles, but there was a lot of shattered Plexiglas in a pile at one of the local Vipera spots. We spent many hours that day and we only cleaned reptiles and amphibians habitats. Anyway, we hope that the animals, (and the nature), appreciate the many people who went out to assist in the good cause; we saw two other teams that day.
Herps on our way:
We took a break and spent acummulated 40 minutes on field herping, we found 6 different species on our way – here are the pictures:
We found: Natrix natrix, Vipera berus, Anguis Fragilis, Rana temporaria, Lissotriton vulgaris og Lissotriton cristatus.
The field trip:
Triturus cristatus, male | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Triturus cristatus, male | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Triturus cristatus, male | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Triturus cristatus, male | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Triturus cristatus, male | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Triturus cristatus, male - ventral side | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Lissotriton vulgaris, male | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
There are three Lissotriton vulgaris on the photo - can you see them? | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Lissotriton vulgaris | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Lissotriton vulgaris | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Lissotriton vulgaris | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Lissotriton vulgaris, dead specimen | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Rana temporaria | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Rana temporaria | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Natrix natrix | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Vipera berus | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Anguis fragilis | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
The cleaning team | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010 (Left: Mikkel Frederiksen. Right: Christian Nielsen).
Natural habitat | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010
Forces of nature | © Mikkel Frederiksen 2010