Ocean is our only resource here on the Cape Verde islands. It is our duty to protect it and ensure its health for the future generations. We, in Cabo Verde Diving wish to raise people's ecological awareness regarding the production and disposal of waste that ends up in the ocean. We have gathered divers and volunteers to carry out underwater cleanups, along with environmental education, communication actions to raise awareness among the Capeverdean population.
Weak regulation and supervision of tourism activities in natural areas, linked to poor scientific knowledge of the target species have generated adverse impacts on marine environment, species, and consequently on tourists experience threatening the sustainability of the activity itself. We want to ensure that tourism development in Cape Verde is pursued within a sustainable framework to mitigate the possibility of negative impacts on the Capeverdean ecology, society and culture.
We see an existing gap in the area of marine protection and to address this problem, we decided to prepare sustainable underwater tourism guidelines which will be shared with the local authorities and government. Our goal is to achieve implementation of these guidelines into the Capeverdean legal framework. The development of these guidelines will support green growth in Cape Verde and act as a practical sustainable tourism management tool.