Green group in drive to clean Caspian beaches
BANDAR ANZALI, IRAN, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian volunteers
combed the picturesque beaches of the Caspian Sea on Friday in the first
major cleanup launched by Iran's environmentalist Green Front.
The volunteers picked up tonnes of litter along Iran's 740 km (460 miles)
of Caspian coastline, a favourite holiday destination for millions of
Iranians.
Pollution in the region also poses a threat to the world's gastronomes,
threatening the habitat of sturgeon which produce caviar.
``This drive is just a symbolic action to raise consciousness about
environmental issues,'' said Siamak Moattari, head of Green Front, a
non-governmental organisation set up in 1988.
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