TWO OCEANS
AQUARIUM NAMED SA'S THIRD HERITAGE ENVIRONMENTAL STAR |
The classification is awarded to
participants in the Heritage Programme who have maintained
Platinum status for five consecutive years and have shown
continued improvement in their sustainability efforts.
Cape Town's Two Oceans Aquarium has
been awarded the prestigious Diamond status by the Heritage
Environmental Rating Programme, becoming only the third
establishment to achieve such status in South Africa.
Along with Two Oceans Aquarium, the
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway and Tsogo Sunˇ¦s Drakensberg Sun
Resort, are the only two other Diamond status properties in
South Africa, which received their honours in 2015 and 2013,
respectively.
According to Two Oceans Aquarium
CEO, Michael Farquhar, the new status cements the aquarium's aim
to advocate sustainability. "We are on a sustainability journey
and this award is an affirmation that we are on the right track,
not that we have reached the end. There is just no time to sit
back and polish our diamond,ˇ¨ he says.
The Two Oceans Aquarium aims to
raise awareness of environmental issues and promote
conservation. This is in line with its vision of abundant and
healthy oceans and its mission to inspire support for their
future well-being. Through its environmental charter, which
includes aspects of legislation, resource usage and
communication, the aquarium clearly outlines its sustainability
goals.
Two Oceans Aquarium Communications
and Sustainability Manager, Helen Lockhart, also says with the
sustainability journey, it has been "extremely gratifying and
inspiring to see the shift in peopleˇ¦s attitudes and behaviour
over the years and to see sustainability move from being on the
fringe of the business to now being a core focus area". ˇV
Source: Traveller24
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