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PADI award Green Star Award to Scuba St. Lucia
St. Lucia’s longest-running dive operation, Scuba St. Lucia, has been awarded the Professional Association of Diving Instructors Green Star Award for its dedication to conservation.
Founded in 1981, Scuba St. Lucia is located at the water’s edge of the Anse Chastanet and Jade Mountain resorts. Consistently voted among the top hotels in the Caribbean by leading travel authorities, both hotels were designed with a commitment to sustainability and environmental preservation.
Now, PADI is recognising the resorts’ efforts to keep its scuba diving operation clean and green.
The award is given to PADI dive centers and resorts that demonstrate a commitment to conservation across multiple business functions, including energy use, water conservation, environmentally friendly transportation, conservation leadership, use of sustainable materials and a donation to conservation via Project AWARE.
That level of dedication to the environment falls in line with the philosophy of resort owner, Nick Troubetzkoy, who is passionate about nature. “Being conscious about the environment is a way of life for our teams at Anse Chastanet and Jade Mountain,” Troubetzkoy said.
The hotels operate their own wastewater treatment plant on-site, treating gray water for irrigation and keeping its water supply independent from the surrounding community, so as not to burden the residents of Soufrière. The resorts’ facilities are equipped with low-flush toilets, low-flow shower heads and composting toilets on the beach.
Guests are encouraged to reuse their towels and sheets during their stay, rather than having their linens laundered daily, and old but still usable towels are altered by a local seamstress to become hand towels for the hotel’s public areas.
The resorts’ fuel-efficient vehicles are regularly serviced, and fresh fish and produce come from a farm on the property as well as from the surrounding community.
The region around Anse Chastanet is part of an award-winning marine reserve run by the Soufrière Marine Management Association. Scuba St. Lucia strictly follows the marine reserve policy of “look but don’t touch,” to ensure protection of the area’s coral reef and other marine life.
“I am grateful to PADI for recognizing us with this honor, and I’m so proud of our team members for their continued world-class excellence in all areas, but particularly in our environmental efforts,” Troubetzkoy said.
Source: www.amsterdamnews.com
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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