History and the future united

The Teignmouth group Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape have accepted the proposal from Starcross History for our replica of The Swan of the Exe,

So we're on board for 2015. The Swan of the Exe will rise again to Protest Pollution of the Planet.

Luci, from TrailArt, is coming to our meeting on Wednesday May 13th at 7:30pm in Starcross Pavilion. Luci will give a short presentation before the main one from Janet Cutler on Brunel in the West Country.

Many feathers were cut out this weekend at the St Paul's Church Celebration of Country Life. Thankyou everyone.

More milk bottles have been promised. 

The proposal is that The Swan of the Exe is re-created, using an old dinghy, and wire-netting, covered with white plastic feathers, made from plastic milk bottles. There will be a trail of flotsam and jetsam behind The Swan of the Exe. Graphic photographs of entangled creatures will be attached to relevant pieces of rubbish. This is to bring attention to the monstrous rafts of rubbish in our oceans: There are millions of pieces of plastic within the 5 subtropical gyres, but recent research by the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis has demonstrated that the amount of visible plastic within the vast, visible rafts is far from representative of the enormous quantities that have entered the oceans since plastic was invented at the start of the 20th century. In fact, 8 billion tons must have entered the oceans, but only a quarter of a billion tons are visible. What has happened to the rest? Is it lying in the deep ocean? Has it been broken into micropieces? What will be the terrible consequences?

We haven't sourced the right wrecked dinghy yet, so if anyone can help with this, please get in touch. The dinghy needs to be a wreck, otherwise it might be a temptation for someone to steal it. The broken dinghy also needs to be very small - around 8 foot, so that it can fit into the back of a Discovery.

Meanwhile, we need feathers. Please. Or just milk bottles so that we can make them.

Some money from sales of our hard enamel badges 

will provide any extra materials we might need. 

Donations needed of:  white paint, nails, wire and some long wooden poles/staves for the wings.

OSPREY chick has died entangled in metal parcel tape

Death by Plastic

Death by Plastic

Balloon menace

Epitaph of the turtles: we thought these were delicious jellyfish

Slow death by plastic

This hedgehog was saved. Others aren't so lucky when they tangle with the MENACE of  plastic can packaging rings