Fiction: Group 1
Eco-heros
St. Paul's Co-educational College Primary School, Lo, ManYi Kristen - 7, Fiction:
Group 1
t was the white dolphin Coco’s second birthday.
Coco was friendly and had beautiful pink skin like
cotton candy. She had never swum away from her habitat, which was west of Lantau on the Pearl River
Delta.
So, as a surprise, her mum and dad announced that they would go to Macau and then Shenzhen
and join their relatives to celebrate.
Knowing that it’s her first adventure, Coco couldn’t hide her excitement.
On the way to Macau, the family was swimming gracefully and playfully. Then, Coco heard a
jellyfish shouting, “Help, help!” She halted to a stop suddenly and found a jellyfish trapped in a white
supermarket plastic bag with a blue logo, heart, and mini-recycle symbol.“Please help me! I’m trapped in this
plastic bag. I couldn’t breathe!” begged the jellyfish.
Gently, Coco used her toothed beak to lift the bag and
free the jellyfish from his peril.
Once they arrived in Macau, they went to their cousins’ home near Taipa.
Sadly, they found out one
of their cousins had died.
“It happened a year ago. She was poisoned by a toxic liquid released into the Pearl River Delta from
the factories in Dongguan.We never know who is going to be next.”
Coco’s uncle sobbed.
The next day, Coco and her family swam to Shenzhen. She was hoping her aunts and uncles would
cheer her up with some birthday surprises. But on the way there, she found lots of flat colourful balloons
surrounding her in the water. It must have been dumped into the sea after a party.
When Coco and her family returned to Lantau, she decided to take action.“Don’t the humans know
how much damage they have caused us? Can’t
they see they aren’t just killing us but themselves? Why do we
all need to suffer such sadness?” Coco thought.
She asked her best friends, Hannah the horseshoe crab, Stella
the starfish and Jamie the jellyfish to help her organize a club called Eco-Heroes.
At weekends, when Coco, Hannah, Stella and Jamie didn’t have marine school, they and their many
sea friends would find different ways to clean the Pearl River Delta.They would look at the water quality, use
a vacuum to suck up the filthy, grimy sewage, and find rubbish like water bottles and sweep them
onshore.
The Eco-Heroes managed to clean 90% of the water in the Pearl River Delta and saved many
marine animals.
Coco received the Best Environmental Dolphin Award from King Neptune, the king of the sea, on
her third birthday.
Coco now holds an annual event called Sweep Our Dear River Clean to continue
cleaning and saving the habitat of over 1000 kinds of fish.
However, no matter how hard Coco and her
friends try to save the Pearl River, if human beings keep on polluting the environment, dolphins and other
marine animals will not be able to survive and marine lives will become extinct in the Pearl River.
Pearl
River will become a dull and lifeless pearl.
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