The 2004 Responsible Tourism Beach/Marine Award Winner
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 Winner: Chumbe Island Coral Park LtdCHICOP was registered in 1993 in Zanzibar for the SOLE PURPOSE of conservation of Chumbe Island. The first article of the Memorandum of Association says: "The objects for which the company is incorporated are: To manage, for conservation purposes, the Chumbe Island Reef Sanctuary and the Chumbe Island Forest Reserve. This includes educational and commercial activities related to the non-consumptive use of the above mentioned natural resources and the doing of all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above object."  Therefore, the objectives of CHICOP are non-commercial, while operations follow commercial principles. In fact, the overall aim of CHICOP is nothing less but to create a model of sustainable conservation area management, where ecotourism supports conservation and an environmental education program for local schoolchildren. Find Chumbe Island coral Park on responsibletravel.com here |
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