Ocean Crusaders are aware that plastic bags and plastics kill marine life, not to mention being a much broader environmental hazard. With over 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean, it is time to take action to protect our marine life and our way of life. Ocean Crusaders focus on protecting the creatures [...]
Our primary focus at Ocean Crusaders is our online educational program. This program is produced for teachers of junior/primary schools to present to their students. We are constantly trying to grow the campaign but we need your help. Whilst Australia and NZ are once again showing fantastic growth with numbers up on last year already [...]
Guest Contribution by Alysse Mathalon & Olivia Paitich We want to get you thinking about microplastics. What are microplastics, you may ask? Well, as the name describes, they are tiny bits of plastic (generally up to 5 mm in size), and they happen to be everywhere – in the air, in the water, in the [...]
Adrienne Carter has been busy pushing Ocean Crusaders in the USA. Part of her campaign was to work with Holly Andreotta in starting the very first Ocean Crusaders Club. This club has been formed at the Sacred Heart School in Fort Worth Florida. Things have been a bit busy here at OC recently but finally I [...]
Coles Supermarkets support Landcare through providing reusable bags for just 99 cents. These bags are great to use time and time again however there is one major issue……they are PLASTIC. They even have a plastic bottom in them which makes these pictures even worse. Whilst they are fantastic in reducing the number of single use [...]
I don’t usually go on a rant but today I feel I have to. The question above is one I think of so many times when I see idiots tossing their cigarette butts in the ocean or on the ground. Where do they think it is going? They don’t is the obvious answer as they [...]
Queensland Conservation is running a campaign to make February a plastic bag free month. Plastic bag litter kills wildlife, clogs landfill, and squanders fossil fuels. In Australia, SA, NT, and ACT have all banned single-use plastic bags. Around the world, countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, China, South Africa, Botswana, Eritrea, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somaliland, Tanzania, and United [...]
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the only event of its type. Anyone, even if they have never stepped on a boat before, can join the adventure and circumnavigate the world in an eleven month-long marathon. This is the only race in the world where the organisers supply the fleet of 12 identical, [...]
Lets make our New Years resolution early this year and promise to keep our beaches as clean as possible. So to start off 2013 the right way Surfrider Foundation Palm Beach Chapter have scheduled their beach clean up for Saturday, January 12th 7:30am to 10:00am. The Ocean Crusaders marine biology club at Sacred Heart School in Lake [...]
The first thing you think of when you consider paddling in the Northern Territory is the Crocodiles. When I think back to a mate who kayaked from Cairns to Thursday Island in Queensland, he told me stories of crocs exploding out of the water next to him as they thought he was another croc. With a bright yellow [...]
There has been enough said about the work being undertaken in Gladstone Harbour. The Australian Government just seems to turn a blind eye. It seems to be all about money but what is the real cost? Well Tim Wuth who is working on a boat down there today sent me these images:
