PATA and the Reef-World Foundation (Reef-World) are joining hands to enhance awareness and promote knowledge-sharing on issues relating to sustainable diving, snorkelling and marine tourism.
With this partnership, PATA will officially endorse Reef-World as well as its UNEP- (United Nations environment programme) recognised Green Fins management approach, which promotes and measures compliance of destinations, dive operators and related ancillary products and services to stringent environmental standards and best practices for sustainable diving and snorkelling activities.
The partnership will also see PATA make available information relating to diving, snorkelling and marine tourism through its online sustainability web platform sustain.pata.org.
PATA CEO, Mario Hardy, said such improved access to information can enable change at the grassroots level across a wide range of marine tourism issues.
Reef-World has been active in the promotion of marine conservation since the 1990s. Green Fins, its main project today, is an outcome of a partnership with the UNEP and represents the only international environmental standard for diving and snorkelling activities.
