ECOCLUB, Issue 91
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ECOCLUB.com Ecotourism Awards 2007: Candidate Projects Announced & Open for Examination
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
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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
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. 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:
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
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.
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.
Creation of a microenterprise in Cambodia to collect and recycle discarded plastic bags by making them into a range of different
products.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
