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ECO-CITIZENSHIP
SEA ANGELS

TO THE RESCUE

OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

An eco-citizen kayak trip organised by the Monegasque
association Let’s Free The Sea mobilised twenty or so
participants along the Monegasque coastline.

In the summer of 2021, Valentina Agnesi, Fun civic engagement
the President of the association, launched
a series of sea trips with the aim of get- Let’s Free The Sea cooperates with port
ting as many people as possible involved authorities so that they can implement ac-
in ocean protection. During the kayak tion to clean the seabed with divers, to re-
trips, the participants, called Sea Angels, move large items of waste, such as in the
collected floating waste and cleaned the marine protected area of Milazzo in Sicily.
beaches they visited. But what can we do to make everyone feel
concerned by ocean protection? “Thanks
During Monaco Ocean Week 2022, twenty to the kayak trips, participants get to dis-
or so individuals met on Larvotto Beach cover the seacoast while having fun and
to become Sea Angels for one afternoon, staying fit. Once we learn to appreciate,
making them aware of their ability to take we learn to respect”, affirms the President
action to protect the seabed and coast- of the environmental association.
line. Over the course of an hour, in their
double kayaks, our angels made their way
along an almost perfectly blue sea: leaving
the Monegasque beach, they passed the
Monte Carlo Bay to reach the coast of
Roquebrune, before returning to their star-
ting point, tracking down plastic waste.