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It’s a heartbreaking scene – an otter cub stumbling just looking for his family after being separated.
But thanks to the efforts of local animal welfare activists and otter watchers, the little creature was rescued and cared for. The otter was finally reunited with her family after her human helpers took her back to a beach where her family is known to have taken up residence.
Footage from the gathering proved poignant enough to hit The Dodo, the popular social media channel for inspirational animal stories, on Tuesday (September 1).
The incident itself appeared to have taken place in 2016 when the otter cub, named Toby, was rescued after he fell off a ledge into a canal near Fort Road and was taken to Wildlife Reserves Singapore for treatment. Then he was reunited with his pack, or better known as the Sea Otter family.
As moving as the episode was (it garnered over 18 million views), people around the world were most concerned about one thing: how polluted the beach was in Singapore.
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However, they are not wrong. The images showed more than a few plastic bottles strewn on the beach along with other discarded items such as styrofoam blocks, fishing nets, footwear, and even a large blue plastic barrel, among other debris. It was not a good look, and people made it known in the comment section.
A Singapore beach cleanup volunteer chimed in, explaining why Singapore’s beaches are vulnerable to trash from neighboring countries.
Last month, the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the National Parks Board (NParks) noted that the litter situation on beaches has increased dramatically during the Southwest monsoon season.
“The wind blows from the south or southeast between June and September, bringing a greater amount of floating debris from the immediate region, which accumulates on the coasts of neighboring countries and islands, including East Coast Park,” the agencies said in a joint report. statement.
Since then, the NEA has increased the frequency of cleanup operations, while more volunteer beach cleanup groups have been established to tackle the debris.
According to a comment in the Dodo post, the place where the Marina Otter family gathered was at Marina East Beach, where shoreline cleanup volunteers managed to collect 13,601 pieces of debris, weighing a total of 1,608 kg on September 17. of 2016.
