ECOCLUB.com Ecotourism Awards 2007:
Candidate Projects Announced & Open for Examination
ATHENS, GREECE (7 June 2007)
As part
of the annual ECOCLUB.com Ecotourism Awards, the nine finalists of the
2007 awards have been announced and
posted online
and are now open for review by the public. The awards aim to fund with a
total of Euros 3,000 (approx USD 4,000) three projects which in the view
of ECOCLUB Members best implement one or more of the following
Ecotourism principles of ECOCLUB® the International Ecotourism Club™:
1.
minimise the environmental impact of tourism
2. fund environmental conservation
3. promote equality & reduce poverty in the local community
4. increase environmental & cultural knowledge and intercultural
understanding
5. be affordable & open to all
A
'Question Time' period will last from June 7 to June 21, 2007 during
which Members of ECOCLUB may post public questions to the Award
Candidates, who may answer until June 21. Questioning will then stop and
will be followed by voting: the
three winners will be determined in a democratic fashion, by an online
vote by all Members of ECOCLUB, who will choose among submitted
projects, between June 22 & June 29, 2007. The winners will be
officially announced on July 1, 2007, the 8th anniversary of ECOCLUB®.
The implementation of the winning projects will be then covered online at
www.ecoclub.com as it happens.
The nine
candidate projects are as follows:
Α - Puri
Lumbung Cottages
Eco-attraction / water conservation project - Bali, Indonesia
Creation of an eco-attraction in north Bali, to protect the diminishing
water supply and raise awareness. We will plant 1 hectare with organic
Arabica coffee and endangered trees
B -
Candomba Servicos Turisticos
Community
Ping-Pong Tables - Brazil
Construction of two ping-pong tables made out of concrete, in the
central square of the rural village called Caeté-Açu, in the countryside
of the state of Bahia.
C - Eco
Hotel Uxlabil Atitlan
Painting
classes for village youngsters - Guatemala
Preserving & reinforcing the tradition of primitivistic painting of the
Maya tzutuhils in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. 50 youngsters from San Juan
La Laguna will be trained for three months.
D - Carpe
Diem Travel Limited
Plastic bag
recycling microentreprise - Cambodia
Creation of a microenterprise in Cambodia to collect and recycle
discarded plastic bags by making them into a range of different
products.
E - 3
Rivers Eco Lodge & Sustainable Living Centre
Educational
Organic School Garden - Dominica
Creation of an organic educational garden in the village school. The
produce from the garden will be sold in the village providing critical
funding / education for the school.
F - La
Selva Jungle Lodge
Pig farm for
wildlife protection - Ecuador
The difficult to balance carrying capacity of the lodge and the equally
difficult genetic desires of our local indigenous to hunt fresh meat all
come together in a pig farm.
G -
Rwanda Eco-tours Agency
Turning
gorilla poachers to farmers - Rwanda
Creating an alternative means to local people around gorillas’ national
park with an alternative livelihood that will absent them from poaching
of wildlife and degradation of mountain gorilla habitat.
H - The
Lodge at Big Falls
Developing
signage for protected area - Belize
By installing improved signage in the communities surrounding the
Aguacaliente Wildlife Sanctuary, the Aguacaliente Management Team will
encourage sustainable tourism, providing indigenous community members
with alternative income sources.
I -
Malaika Ecotourism Limited
Tree nursery
in Primary School - Kenya
Creation of a tree nursery plantation in Mago Primary School. This
project will bring back understanding of the environmental management in
the community, to stop the pollution of the area.
For more details and to
review the candidate projects, please go to the
ECOCLUB.com
Ecotourism Awards 2007 Forum
Related Links:
ECOCLUB.com Ecotourism
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