Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa – World Oceans Day 2014

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Residing on an island nation, Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa is dearly grateful for and passionate in the protection of the ocean, making World Ocean Day a significant date in the Hadahaa calendar.

Residing on an island nation, Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa is dearly grateful for and passionate in the protection of the ocean, making World Ocean Day a significant date in the Hadahaa calendar.

From June 1-8, 2014, the Hadahaa Hyatt Thrive Team will commence a week-long activity plan designed to raise awareness and funds for marine conservation and sustainability (Hyattโ€™s global corporate responsibility platform).

The feature activity is a 30-km kayak paddle relay between three neighboring, focus islands of Dhaandhoo, Kondey, and Gemanafushi. A team of 10 will set out to complete the challenge in one day while visiting each island along the way to raise awareness for World Ocean Day and what it means to all of us.

Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa World Oceans Week:

โ€ข June 1, 3, 5 โ€“ Marine conservation and sustainability workshops in 3 local schools

โ€ข June 2, 4, 6 – Marine conservation and sustainability presentations to guests of Park Hyatt Maldives

โ€ข June 7 โ€“ Complete and underwater reef cleans of two neighboring reefs

โ€ข June 8 โ€“ 30-km kayak paddle relay

Why is Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa taking part in World Ocean Day? The worldโ€™s oceans generate most of the oxygen we breathe, help feed us, regulate our climate, clean the water we drink, offer a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines, and provide limitless inspiration in all departments of life from leisure to life.

Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa has created a fund raising page for anyone wishing to support our efforts for World Oceans Day with all donations going to The Coral Reef Alliance. www.coral.org

Please find a link to the website page at – http://www.gofundme.com/30k-for-World-Oceans-Day

For more details please contact [email protected]

Full details for World Ocean Day at Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa

June 1-7, 2014 โ€“ Marine conservation and sustainability workshops in 3 local schools

The Hyatt Thrive committee will visit three focus local islands to discuss ways in which it can protect our oceans for the future. This will be an interactive workshop with a focus of engaging school children in promoting marine conservation. The workshop will be specific to Maldives, with focus on marine debris and waste management.

Within each school a poster competition will be held with winning students being awarded a prize to join an exclusive Hadahaa โ€œJourney to Island Creationโ€ with the resident marine biologist.

June 2-6, 2014

The resident marine biologist will be holding group presentations on how Park Hyatt Maldives is striving to be at the forefront of sustainable luxury resorts, and how wider conservation issues are managed in the Maldives.

Timetable:

โ€ข Monday, June 2: โ€œPark Hyatt Maldives and Sustainabilityโ€

โ€ข Wednesday, June 4: โ€œProtecting our oceans for the futureโ€

โ€ข Friday, June 6: โ€œSustainable Seafood: Maldives, the only MCS accredited Tuna fishery in the Indian Oceanโ€

June 7, 2014

Reef Clean – Maareha Kandu and Gemanafushi Corner

Guest and associates will be invited at on the Hyattโ€™s compliments to participate in these dives, where they will collect any garbage, particularly plastics, to be brought back to Park Hyatt Maldives and managed as per its waste management system

June 8, 2014 โ€“ 30-k Paddle

Guest Interaction โ€“ Guests will be encouraged to support and take part in the event in the following ways:

Catamaran Support Crew

Guests can join the event by sailing beside the kayakers on a catamaran. While sailing, guests can also enjoy the stunning views of the local and uninhabited islands of the atoll, and enjoy some trolling fishing.

Hadahaa Beach BBQ

On return to Hadahaa Guests and World Ocean Day participants are invited to celebrate the day with a Beach BBQ, serving only locally-sourced food and fish to be provided.

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