Bequia Easter Regatta 2008 - Caribbean Compass
Bequia Easter Regatta 2008 - Caribbean Compass
Bequia Easter Regatta 2008 - Caribbean Compass
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Marine Conservation<br />
Education Campaign<br />
for Youth<br />
On March 25th the Whale and Dolphin Conservation<br />
Society (WDCS) announced a new educational initiative<br />
in the <strong>Caribbean</strong> region with the launch of its “Live<br />
Free in the Sea” campaign in partnership with the<br />
<strong>Easter</strong>n <strong>Caribbean</strong> Cetacean Network (ECCN).<br />
The “Live Free in the Sea” <strong>2008</strong> program will educate young<br />
people in Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines,<br />
Grenada, and Tobago about how their actions on land can<br />
affect beaches, reefs and marine life.<br />
ECCN island coordinators will be partnering with<br />
primary and secondary schools to conduct activities<br />
under this theme. The program on each island will<br />
consist of environmental education, environmental<br />
action, and an artistic component (for example, music,<br />
performing arts, functional or aesthetic art). Children<br />
will participate in lectures, discussions and activities<br />
on the coastal and marine environment, their inhabitants<br />
and how their actions impact them. Whales and<br />
dolphins, sea turtles and coral reefs and mangroves<br />
will be topics of focus.<br />
In Tobago, children took part in a beach clean-up on<br />
Turtle Beach, where the litter collected will be recycled<br />
to make functional art. This is the main nesting site of<br />
endangered leatherback and hawksbill sea turtles on<br />
Tobago. In Saint Lucia, children will participate in a<br />
whale and dolphin watching tour, and research and<br />
write a children’s book for the school library on whales<br />
and dolphins that migrate through their waters. In<br />
Grenada, participants in the program will produce a<br />
video that will be distributed to the local cable channel.<br />
In <strong>Bequia</strong>, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, children<br />
will take part in a beach clean-up, where collected<br />
bottlecaps will be used to make a large seathemed<br />
mural for display in the community.<br />
For more information contact ECCN Director Nathalie<br />
Ward at nath51@verizon.net.<br />
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TANOGUCHI<br />
APRIL <strong>2008</strong> CARIBBEAN COMPASS PAGE 55
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