By turning to locally - grown seaweed as a feedstock for biodegradable packaging, Evoware aims to boost the livelihoods
of seaweed farmers while also working to reduce plastic waste in general, and to reduce ocean pollution in particular.
Once the dominion
of seaweed farmers, this pretty strip of golden sandy beach runs up to the mangrove forest, and some remnants of the seaweed can still be seen along the shallows.
Not exact matches
Some native
seaweeds might be able to compete with the alien kelp but over centuries
of cultivation Japanese
farmers selected strains that grow easily on artificial and floating surfaces, giving it an advantage on sea walls and pilings.
This isn't the thick
of nature;
seaweed farmer shacks line the beachfront nearby, children play, chickens scrabble and pigs oink, which goes to show the birds don't need great swathes
of forest to survive — they simply need protection from poachers.
Previously a sandy village
of woven coconut leaf huts owned by the
seaweed farmers, a large resort has now commandeered the spot as a beach club and it keeps it pristinely clean.
The calm waters around Lembongan and its sister island, Ceningan, are the tending fields
of local fishermen and
seaweed farmers.
Ps — the folks @ the nusa dua bar and grill are the good guys, same with the local warungs at pantai Geger (and the
seaweed farmers) The Hotel MULIA has breeched the 100 metre Law, and developed up to the waters edge and beyond with ungly man made creek (that stops public access to the beach)..., for their stormwater??? drain into the ocean and an ugly unatural rock groyne to keep the natural flow
of sand away from their septic / rancid manmade creek
The influx
of tourism on Nusa Lembongan however has not only increased pollution in the strait to make the
seaweed industry unviable, but has drawn the
farmers to more lucrative employment.
Most
of the population in Nusa Lembongan are
seaweed farmers.
The claim is that one
of the country's worst oil disasters had a devastating impact on the
seaweed crops
of thousands
of Indonesian
seaweed farmers, virtually destroying their livelihoods.