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Contact: Rose Marie Harris

 

Tuesday, April 25, 2000 – Teachers around the island have been commended for the heightened awareness among young people towards preserving the environment.   During activities marking April 22, 2000 as Earth Day, scores of young people turned out to participate in Soliel Leve at the Pigeon Island National Landmark.

 

Organiser of the event, the Saint Lucia National Trust, says the message of preserving the environment is finally making an impact.   “We are quite pleased at the Saint Lucia National Trust that the teachers are taking the message to the kids, and you can’t have it starting at a much earlier age than that.   I am very pleased today, to see the largest number of kids we have had at an Earth Day ceremony ever.   It means that they themselves will now take the message to the schools and you know the importance of peer education,” said Chairman of the Trust, Cletus Springer as he urged the teachers to continue the good work..  

 

A new campaign, dubbed Envirofever, which is expected to help boost appreciation for the environment and that will involve the schools, was launched on Earth Day.

 

A long serving member of the Trust, Pat Charles, lamented the lack of appreciation for the environment by the older generation and warned that a lot of the practices of the older folk will eventually damage the environment.

 

The theme for Earth Day was “Water and the Quality of Life.”

 

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