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Protect Our Future: Students link heritage to environmental action
Student leaders Zara Majid and Elise Codilla-Shelley join us live to share how their latest campaign, Protecting Our Future Is Protecting Our Past, highlights the connection between Cayman’s historic homes and environmental preservation.
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Legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle celebrates George Town Harbour ‘Hope Spot’
Renowned oceanographer, author and marine biologist Sylvia Earle was in Cayman recently to celebrate George Town Harbour’s designation as a Hope Spot by her organisation, Mission Blue.
Student-led environmental advocacy group Protect Our Future hosted the celebration at Cayman International School on 27 Oct., at which Earle, 88, was the keynote speaker. At her talk at the school, she reminded attendees that “saving the ocean is a team sport”.
More than 200 students, teachers, community members and partners in groups such as the Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Cayman Islands National Trust, Plastic Free Cayman, and the Mangrove Rangers attended the event, at which Premier Wayne Panton and Protect Our Future leaders Evie Sweetman and Chloe Bentick-Lalli also spoke.
