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Monday, 13 October 2008 15:07 |
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A display of tens of gravestones was set up in the Gulf of Eilat on Sunday morning by the Nelson Head beach to enhance awareness of the coral reefs’ plight. ‘We died and this was our grave.’ [read more] |
| A display of tens of gravestones was set up in the Gulf of Eilat on Sunday morning by the Nelson Head beach to enhance awareness of the coral reefs' plight. The display contained 75 white headstones, each inscribed with the name of a coral that has gone extinct. The Greens party set up it with the help of the ‘For the Sea' society and the Shimon Finkelstein office. The event was the brainchild of the ‘Greens' political party, which has 31 branches running candidates for public office throughout the country, including Eilat.
The party's general secretary, Hadas Shakhna'i said: "We believe that the way to show the public the situation is through a dramatic and shocking measure. We are screaming the scream of the marine creatures. With our own hands we are destroying the world that lives under the water."
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According to Shakhna'i, studies show that over 30% of the corals that once existed in the gulf are now extinct. "We are trying to show residents, visitors, divers, and people on land that the coral reef is dying. Our measures include reducing the human burden on the reef, people stepping on the corals, plastic bags blown into the sea - we believe in a dramatic and shocking step."
The party's Eilati leader, Madeleine Edri, said that the headstones are a witness and speak instead of the corals: " ‘We died and this was our grave.' We have to shock people. Something has to be done to shock people and the change has to come through the educational system," going on to say that doing this would be part of her political agenda.
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