4th December 2019, on the World Wildlife Conservation Day, the world's first Marine Cemetery made out of single-use plastic bottles opened its gate at Beypore beach, Kozhikode. Built by Jellyfish Watersports, with the support of Clean Beach Mission, District Administration, Kozhikode and Beypore Port department, and driven by Climate activist Aakash Ranison, it aims at spreading awareness about the devastating effects of single-use plastic, urban and industrial pollution, and overfishing.

This Cemetery pays respect to 8 critically endangered marine species, along with a freshwater fish - Miss Kerala (Sahyadria denisonii), that's endemic to the fast-flowing hill streams and rivers of the Western Ghats (including Chaliyar river). Details

Since 6 years Jellyfish Watersports has been combining recreational water activities with spreading awareness about plastic pollution, the organisation philosophy being Paddle to Preserve. It believes that you preserve only what you love, and paddling is a way to build a strong connection with water bodies.

3 months back, it initiated the drive to collect garbage in Chaliyar River Paddle and joined hands with Aakash Ranison, climate activist to create a bigger impact. They got together paddlers and locals to clean the Beypore beach, and have been encouraging people to pledge to discard one single-use plastic from their lives to start with.

Now, the single-use plastic collected from the river and the beach has been used to build this ‘cemetery’ at the Beypore beach, exactly where Chaliyar river meets the sea.