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| Children playing the Turtle wheel of fortune! |
Green Islands Foundation showed up once again with
lots of fun activities and educational games at the family fun day for the
Seychelles Sea Turtle Festival held on 6th August 2016. With the help of North
Island environment staff, we made sure everybody who visited our stand learnt a
little bit more about one of the most charismatic marine species, sea turtles,
and why we should protect them.
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The winning artwork by Janske van de
Crommenacker |
The festival kicked off on Friday 5th August
with an opening ceremony at the Natural History Museum. During the ceremony the
winners of the various competitions were awarded and several institutions were recognized
for their contribution to sea turtle conservation in Seychelles. We were
extremely pleased as one of our own staff, Janske, won first prize for the 3D craftwork
competition!
The following day we set up on Beau Vallon
beach, alongside other environmental institutions raising awareness and
promoting protection of sea turtles. We had exciting games like wheel of
fortune and pin the turtle as well as other activities like face painting and coloring
activities. The visitors were really enthusiastic and interested to learn more
about sea turtles especially the children.
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| Pin the turtle! |
The Seychelles Sea Turtle Festival was
first held in August 2013 and has been an annual event ever since. The festival is an opportunity to unite the
many different organisations conducting sea turtle research programmes in
Seychelles and to raise awareness of the need for turtle conservation and
protection. The family fun day provides the perfect opportunity to share
information on turtle monitoring programmes being conducted throughout the
Seychelles, and hosting interactive displays with turtle based activities aimed
at educating people of all ages in turtle conservation.
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| Colour the turtle! |
We would like to extend a big thank you to the organisers
of the Sea Turtle Festival to have invited us and to continue the excellent
work they are doing in Seychelles.
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| The beautiful turtle colouring made by children |
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