COME FULL CIRCLE

NEW, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

100cm x 130cm

Available

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About Come Full Circle

This painting represents a huge conservation success in the bay of Kep, along Cambodia’s coastline. Five years ago this area of ocean was dead, illegal trawler fishing boats had come in and essentially killed all life. Electric fishing nets had been used to kill whatever lived below the sand. It was a ghost ocean until Marine Conservation Cambodia began deploying Jenga inspired block structures throughout the bay. Big concrete blocks are built up on the seabed by their dive team, if a trawler net gets caught in one of these they have to be cut loose, the nets cost thousands of dollars to replace. MCC have deployed around 300 of these anti-trawling structures in the bay and now the wildlife is returning!

Cambodia used to have one of the largest sea grass meadows in SE Asia, the meadows are slowly coming back bringing with them fish, turtles, dolphins, seahorses and the adorable dugong (closely related to the Manatee.)

MCC have effectively rewilded an ocean and have recently been granted funding to deploy these structures along the entire Cambodian coastline giving hope to the sealife as well as the local fishing communities who rely on sustainable fishing to survive.

Thank you so SO much MCC for the incredible work you are doing for Cambodia’s marine life – and for all of us living here.

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