CASE STUDY 8.
DIVERS CLEAN UP REEF - ENVIRONMENT AND
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE LOCAL
COMMUNITY; LABUAN BAJO - MARTA MUSLIN
Objective: Support environment and educational development in the
local community and to provide a community benefit from tourism.
• West Mangari – all officials from region are course program
participants.
• Marta Muslin's is from Labuan Bajo.
Divers clean up reef project focuses on training young people to swim,
so they can then get divemaster certificates. Waste is the major issue
so as a group they then went to Jakarta and did a reef clean-up. Other
program course alumni helped plan this project for the dive industry.
On return from Australia, Savannah Guides and Indigenous
representative were inspired and created a conservation guard. They
graduated four dive-masters with the expertise to train other locals to
dive and help clean the reef.
The divers were promoted as clean-up group and 'Bring your own
bottle' campaign was created. This project gained great interest and
support from the Minister of Environment. As a result of the success of
this project the course
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