Wild Asia Newsletter - April 2008

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Greetings to everyone!

Four months into the year and the list of things we want to share starts to grow!

Promoting Responsible Tourism

• Entries for our 2008 Responsible Tourism Awards are open until 1st June. Enter your hotel or guesthouse or nominate one you've stayed in. Details inside.

• We are excited to announce that Malaysia Airlines are once again supporting our Responsible Tourism Awards. They'll be flying our assessment teams out to our finalists for those all-important site visits.

• Calling for speakers for our Responsible Tourism Seminar to be held in October this year. If you have an interesting paper to present or would like to share your experience of Responsible Tourism contact us at RT@wildasia.net for more details. Our three core themes for this year are: Recognising Good Practices in Responsible Tourism, Green Technology & Knowledge and Understanding Tourism Concerns.

• Wild Asia presented on our RT Initiative at the 2nd International Conference on Responsible Tourism held in Cochin, Kerala, India last month. The conference reviewed progress on RT since the last conference in 2002 and produced a common declaration on the state of the responsible tourism movement in the world. The conference was organised by the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) based at the UK's Leeds University and Kerala Tourism.

Corporate Responsibility

This month has seen us involved with running several important training workshops that have ranged from Responsible Tourism, Making Sense of RSPO to Corporate Responsibility. This is a very good start and is something we will be doing more of in the coming months. Its all part of our strategy to raise awareness of sustainability issues amongst different corporate bodies, from the media, travel-related professionals to financial advisors.

Other news

• Reza's cousin Nisar Malik has been part of an exciting series of BBC documentaries on the snow leopards of Pakistan. The footage captures some exciting sequences of this rare and elusive animal in the wild. The screening has gathered a lot of interest and is picking up a number of important awards - catch some of the clips here!

• WA will be on the world stage by being part of the Olympic torch run in Kuala Lumpur. Lend your support on the 21st.

• Rainforest World Crafts Bazaar is on 7th-15th July in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia. Craftsmen from Asia, Australia and America will be showing traditional crafts enhanced by competent modern design. More details email: crafthub@gmail.com

• The Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC) based in Kuala Lumpur has just released a revealing video about the Orang Asli and the Kelau dam project. Download the video here.

All the best from the Wild Asia web team!
Reza, Scott, Mike and Rebecca

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Teamwork for Turtles

RIVER FOO, WWF-Malaysia’s Terengganu Turtle Conservation Programme Community Liaison Officer, shares an uplifting story about many people working together to save a turtle - a tale to motivate us all to participate in turtle conservation.

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Forest Hearts, Forest Stands

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Buena Vista Outdoor Education Center

Continuing her Indonesian quest to find Responsible Tourism projects, SARAH BAXTER stops off near Bandung, Java to learn how teaching children about mistakes in the past could help tourism in the future.

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