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Plett goes GREEN this June! Bitou Tourism is celebrating World Environment Day with week-long festivities during the Plettenberg Bay Eco Festival from 1-6 June. The festival aims to promote environmental awareness in the Plettenberg Bay area and encourage an appreciation of the rich environmental diversity of the region.
Hitting the road for learners – the festival includes a School Road Show to local primary and high schools, which will teach learners about important environmental issues such as recycling and protecting the environment. Lunchbox Theatre will present Recycling Awareness Programmes at the schools and recycling units will also be installed at some of the schools. Schools included are Murray High School, Phakamisani Primary, Greenwood Primary, Plett Primary and Secondary, Formosa Primary, Harkerville Primary, Kranshoek Primary, Wittedrift Primary and High School as well as Crags Primary.
Grab your biggest basket and mosey around the Green Market. From 17:00, Plettenberg Bay Main Street will come alive with the Green Market, which will feature recycled arts and crafts, organic cooking demonstrations and live music. Businesses in the area are supporting this initiative by extending their shopping hours. On Friday, 5 June, the documentary The Eleventh Hour will be shown at the White House and a panel discussion on the environmental status of the region with local environmental experts will follow.
A bumper beach clean-up will take place on Central Beach and an educational lagoon walk (12:00) at Lookout Beach to coincide with World Environmental Day on Saturday, 6 June. Saturday also sees a special presentation (10:00) by Dennis Robson of Eagle Encounters in Harkerville as well as the opening (10:00) of the newly renovated Milkwood Trail.
Eco Festival 2009
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