Cambodia -Training and Field Campaign

From Monday the 22^nd of May to Friday the 2^nd of June, CSIRO’s Marine debris researchers TJ Lawson and Lauren Roman  joined with the international NGO Fauna and Flora’s Marine Plastics team from the, Coastal & Marine Conservation Programme, Cambodia, the Cambodian Ministry of Environment, staff from the Provincial Department of Environment from the provinces where the survey took place, and individual skilled contractors to conduct ‘Capacity building and survey for baseline assessment of marine litter in the coastal environment of Cambodia 2023’. This is the second baseline assessment for marine litter ever undertaken in Cambodia, a follow up from the first baseline assessment undertaken late in 2022. Together, we completed 143 inland, coastal and river sites, completing a total of 443 transects. This training made a new CSIRO record for the first baseline assessment conducted in any country where there were no data entry errors during the survey period. Congratulations to everyone involved!!