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Green Fins: Regional Initiative for Sustainable Reef Tourism Management

The Green Fins initiative aims to protect coral reefs by promoting sustainable diving and snorkeling tourism through environmentally friendly guidelines. Critical aspects include capacity building, certification, data collection, and stakeholder partnerships to reduce local threats and increase resilience. With a focus on best practices, this proven approach involves dive businesses in implementing lasting environmental policies. Future steps involve continued development, impact assessments, and targeted communication strategies for long-term sustainability.

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Green Fins: Regional Initiative for Sustainable Reef Tourism Management

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  1. A regional initiative for managing the impacts of diving and snorkeling activities on coral reefs

  2. Reef Tourism Presents a threat and an opportunity Reducing local threats will increase the resilience of coral reefs to withstand the long term effect of a changing climate

  3. Green Fins “To protect and conserve coral reefs by establishing and implementing environmentally friendly guidelines to promote a sustainable diving and snorkelling tourism industry.”

  4. Critical Aspects • Applying best practice • 15 Point Code of Conduct • Annual environmental assessments • Certification

  5. Critical Aspects • Capacity building • Reef-World training for Green Fins Management Teams (local and national authorities and NGOs) • Green Fins Assessor Training Programme • National and local implementation support

  6. Critical Aspects • Capacity building • Reef-World training for Green Fins Management Teams (local and national authorities and NGOs) • Dive businesses to implement effective policies to reduce risk • Staff training • Environmental awareness materials • Toolkits

  7. Critical Aspects • Revising and strengthening regulatory frameworks and existing conservation initiatives

  8. Critical Aspects • Public private partnership • Data collection - citizen science • Alert Networks • Clean ups • Mooring buoy programmes

  9. Critical Aspects • Broker for integrated coastal zone management • Holistic approach • Strategic local solutions and outreach and education campaigns

  10. Critical Aspects • Proven approach • Green Fins members implement effective and lasting environmental policies after contact with the Green Fins systems Fig 2. Mean dive centre assessment scores (weighted) for Moalboal from assessments over three year of Green Fins implementation (2012), n = 17, error bars represent SE. Fig 1. Mean dive centre assessment scores (weighted) for Puerto Galera from assessments over four year of Green Fins implementation (2012), n = 31, error bars represent SE.

  11. Proven approach • Green Fins results in dive businesses implementing effective policies and practices to reduce environmental risk • Replicable

  12. Next Steps • Continued development and implementation of Green Fins • Enhancing the long-term sustainability and replicability of Green Fins • Environmental and economic impact assessments • Building a long-term sustainability model • Developing Green Fins tools and the network • Implement targeted communication and outreach strategies responding to changing environment and market

  13. Thank you!

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