EcoBoat floating school fighting the good fight

Posted by admin on June 9, 2011 under News | Be the First to Comment

The Ha Long Bay Management Department in collaboration with the Fauna and Flora International (FFI) has opened an exhibition on the EcoBoat, an environmental education program on the bay’s Thien Cung Cave, reports VietnamPlus.

To showcase Ecoboat’s outstanding performance in the last six years, the exhibition displays poems and paintings featuring a wide range of activities launched by the program to help create a forever green, clean and beautiful bay.

Established in 2005 by the Ha Long Bay Management Department and the Fauna and Flora International (FFI), the EcoBoat serves as a floating school that educates children about the values of Ha Long Bay as well as a call to preserve the world heritage site.

Students join many practical activities such as exploring values and potentialities of Halong Bay, socio-economic development effects on ecological system, biological significance of the marine reserve, as well as joining in planting trees on mangrove forests, evaluating water quality or collecting garbage on the beach and having fun on the beach, swimming, fishing, making camp fires and cruising around the bay.

The program, funded by the UK’s Darwin Initiative, has carried out a total of 136 trips with the participation of over 4,000 members since April 2006.

The exhibition contributes to the campaign to garner votes for Ha Long Bay as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, and raises public awareness about environmental protection of the world heritage site.

Source: Saigon Times