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Heal the Bay is a U.S. environmental advocacy group of activists based in Santa Monica, California. The focus is protecting coastal waters and watersheds of southern California, and is focused on Santa Monica Bay. Map of Santa Monica Bay. Heal the Bay is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with full-time paid staff members and volunteers.
Environmentalist began Heal the Bay LA Times Obituary; Heal the Bay Founder Dorothy Green passes away Press Release from Heal the Bay; Dorothy Green's Final Fight: Heal the Bay Founder says California's Drought a Fake LA Weekly, October 14, 2008; A heartfelt plea for a sensible water policy Dorothy Green's last commentary, a week before her death
Heal the Bay Aquarium, previously named the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, is a private-public aquarium at a California State Beach Park managed by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors, located beneath the Santa Monica Pier, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. Since 2003, it is operated by Heal the Bay, a nonprofit organization. [1]
The bay had been closed to tourism in June due to the damage caused by mass tourism. Marine biologists took the return of the sharks as a positive signal that the tourist ban was allowing the ecosystem to heal. [15] By February 2019, over 15,000 corals from several local species have been propagated in the bay.
Alamitos Bay is protected by both the natural sand spit Peninsula and the Long Beach Breakwater. It is divided from the San Gabriel River and Seal Beach by a pair of jetties. The natural geography has been heavily altered by dredging and landfill subsequent to development. The bay was severely impacted by the 1939 California tropical storm. [2]
It was known as Bay of Batavia by the Dutch, who founded their city of Batavia, an administrative capital of the Dutch East Indies Company, in 1619. There are several rivers that flow into Jakarta Bay, including (in order from east to west): Kali Bekasi , Kali Cakung, Kali Buaran, Kali Sunter , Ciliwung , Kali Krukut, Kali Angke .
Indonesia consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and various parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).
Buyat Bay is small bay on the south coast of Minahassa Peninsula on the north of Sulawesi island of Indonesia.Since 1996, Newmont Mining Corporation under its subsidiary company, PT Newmont Minahasa Raya, has been using the bay as the tailing (mine waste) dumping ground for its gold mining activities.