The Akamas Clean-up Team or ACT, is a small group of Volunteers who meet every two months or so to remove portable and accessible rubbish from the more remote areas of the Akamas Peninsula (a promontory and cape in the Pafos District at the northwest extremity of Cyprus with an area of 230 square kilometres), in order to protect the environment, its flora and fauna and to make visits to the Peninsula more pleasurable for Cyprus residents and tourists.

ACT held its first Clean-up in September 2012 and it will be holding its 28th Clean-up on Saturday 17 June 2017.

Usually around 10 to 20 or so Volunteers turn up for a few hours and rubbish is collected into large bags which are then deposited, along with larger items, at a nearby pre-arranged collection point for subsequent disposal by the Forestry Department. Photographs of ACT's Clean-ups are posted on this Facebook Page and photographs of some earlier Clean-ups can also be viewed via the following link: http://www.mediafire.com/?hnrts1tr6c9n0

All the Clean-ups so far have been on the coast as there is a high concentration of flotsam and jetsam consisting of all sorts of mainly plastic objects deposited on the beaches and blown inland from the coast. However ACT is prepared to organise Clean-ups wherever rubbish is identified on the Peninsula which is not in the populated areas for which the local authorities should be responsible.

ACT Volunteers have so far removed over 8,000 kilograms (approximately) of rubbish from the Akamas Peninsula.

ACT is always looking for more Volunteers since not everyone is able to help at every Clean-up. If you are interested in helping ACT to help the Akamas environment, then please contact:

Keith Watkins

Neo Chorio Pafou

Cyprus

Tel: 96 516 485

Email: keith.wendy.watkins@gmail.com