Conservation Watch

Last year, the Flipflopi Dhow took its maiden Lake Victoria voyage. The Flipflopi was built. Built according to traditional techniques on the island of Lamu, the Flipflopi is made entirely from recycled plastic collected along the Kenya coast- over ten tonnes of plastic waste. Around 30, 000 repurposed flipflops gave the boat its striking multi-coloured finish. The dhow was built over two years and in 2018 sailed from Lamu to Zanzibar. The voyage took three weeks and the dhow’s innovative crew stopped in villages along the way, raising awareness to the calamity caused by plastic pollution. Global plastic production is around 311 million tonnes a year, of which about 12.2 million tonnes finds its way into our seas. Plastic doesn’t bio-degrade; it just breaks into smaller pieces. This means..........