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Mentawai
Adventure is also an ecotourism and sustainable development foundation
that works to protect the Mentawai culture and environment. It
has been granted a Global Sustainable Tourism Award by the prestigious
American magazine "Islands".
Our efforts
to develop a sustainable tourism that benefits to the Mentawai
people have been acknowledged. Good for us, but mainly for the
future of the ecotourism in the Mentawai Islands.
Siloinak
Resort will soon start an experiment using a revolutionary method
that speeds up the growth of coral and helps it to adapt to warmer
waters. If successful, this first large scale test will open the
door to extensive exploitation that could help protect the shores
from the rise of the oceans waters due to global warming and also
allow the creation of new "perfect waves" for surfing.
Here
are some excerpts of the "Islands" Magazine December
2007 issue.
"`We here at ISLANDS
decided to celebrate, support and honor the places and people
who have taken up the challenge to make responsible and sustainable
tourism practices a vital part of the way they do business and,
more importantly, the way they live.
To celebrate these incredible and on-going achievements, we've
put together our inaugural Blue List and launched our Islands
Global Sustainable Tourism Awards, which we've dubbed
The Blue Awards.
The people, places and things
that made our list are the very best of the world of islands responsible
tourism. They are models that are working. And they are role models
that should be followed and venerated.
This issue is a celebration of the leaders and innovators in sustainable
tourism, people committed to preserving everything that is unique
about our island experiences.
Congratulations to all our winners in each
and every category. Support them. Celebrate them."
Ty Sawyer, editor@islands,com
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