Indian Ocean's Leading Ecotourism Destination
Cousine Island Achieves Top Honours at the World Travel Awards 2007
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Seychelles, 30 November 2007
Cousine Island, one of the most pristine private island
nature reserves in the Seychelles, was awarded top position in the category
Indian Ocean's Leading Ecotourism Destination. The 14th World Travel Awards,
titled "The Oscar of the Travel Industry" by Wall Street Journal took place
in Bangalore, India on Friday 2nd November 2007. Annually, tens of thousands
of members of the international travel industry partake in the election for
this prestigious prize, which has been awarded since 1993.
"We are very honoured to receive this award," says Jock Henwood, Island
Manager of Cousine Island with pride. "Especially as it is recognition for
our philosophy, asserting us that our strong commitment to nature
preservation and conservation is geared in the right direction. For over 15
years now, dedicated conservationists have been working for the benefit of
the nature, in order to preserve Cousine Island as a haven for nature and
Man. This will remain our main objective for the future."
Cousine Island is a leading example of pro-active conservation through
restoration and rehabilitation, living proof of how man and nature can
co-exist sustainably. Set aside for conservation in 1992 with the goal of
total rehabilitation to its original ecologically pristine condition. Today,
the island habitat of Cousine is close to the way it would have been before
the arrival of man in the Seychelles islands during the 17th century. It is
also now recognized as a very important ecological site in the Seychelles.
Full time Island Ecologists work side by side to initiate, conduct and
monitor all the research and conservation work on the island. The Seychelles
Magpie Robin, the Hawksbill Turtle and the Seychelles White-eye monitoring
programs are amongst the most high profile projects running at present, and
Cousine is recognized as a national leader in the knowledge and conservation
of these species.
By staying in a villa on Cousine, the guests contribute directly towards
sustaining the island's research and conservation projects, and they are
therefore, perhaps albeit unknowingly, investing in the future of both
Cousine Island itself and Seychelles as a whole. Cousine is one of the very
few islands in the Seychelles where guests have the opportunity to enjoy a
harmonic combination of a luxury holiday while experiencing a true natural
paradise.
Further information links:
Cousine Island's homepage
World Travel Awards
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