The Kuwait Environment Protection Society announced that Rasameel Investment Company has joined the Society’s «Beach Safari» program, through entering into a one-year environmental partnership with the program, based on its social responsibility program and its awareness of its social and environmental role.
Secretary General and Director of Programs and Activities at the Association, Jenan Behzad, said that Rasameel Investment Company joined the activities of the «Beach Safari» program, which was launched by the Association about two years ago to document the wildlife and natural life of Kuwait’s beaches and to care for and preserve them through activities and events with specialists and volunteers in the environmental field, as well as a group of seminars, lectures and executive and applied workshops.
She emphasized that this partnership falls within the framework of striving to achieve a set of objectives, including assessing the condition of beaches, raising awareness of the importance of beaches and coasts, as well as the types of coastal and beach rocks and sands, monitoring the condition of marine life and plants in the vicinity of the coasts, beaches and their types and the risks they face, raising awareness of the importance of beaches and monitoring them, in addition to strategic plans for coastal management and scientific reports related to this matter.
For his part, Mr. Abdulaziz Tariq Al-Rashid, Director of Corporate Relations at Rasameel Investment Company, said that when the company saw that its social responsibilities were becoming more effective and diverse, it decided to enter into an environmental partnership for a year with the «Safari Beaches» program and join the activities of the program that support empowering young people with the components of environmental work and promoting the values of environmental citizenship and work through attention to monitoring, documentation, follow-up and spreading correct awareness and the importance of preserving natural environments, in order to participate with many specialists and volunteers in the environmental field.
He emphasized that Rasameel Company is participating in a field role and providing awareness support related to beaches and their marine life in this multi-stage program and activities, which includes external and field events for many beaches and coasts. He added that the company's joining the environmental partners in the association falls within the framework of its community roles and contributions towards strengthening the environmental dimension in an institutional style and approach that is positively reflected from its participation in the program's awareness, practical and field activities, which include a group of seminars, lectures and executive and applied workshops.
Al-Rashid stated that Rasameel Company believes it can achieve its community goals and objectives in its environmental aspect through the program, which targets many segments and categories of society supported by the association, such as school students, participating and cooperating civil society organizations, other governmental bodies and agencies, as well as experts, academics, and the association's volunteers. He expressed the company's readiness to interact with volunteer groups and teams in Kuwait and organizations related to the activities and events of the program, which includes in its axes raising awareness of the importance of beaches and monitoring them, in addition to strategic plans for coastal management and scientific reports on this matter.
Janan Behzad concluded her remarks by pointing out that coastal tourism needs sustainable development based on knowledge of natural resources, management expertise, and environmental responsibility to enjoy the coasts ecologically and culturally. Protecting coastal resources through parks and marine nature reserves is a necessary requirement for the sustainability of the future of the coastal environment to achieve the goals of sustainable development for the coasts. These efforts require taking appropriate measures to divide the coasts according to their suitability for use and to continuously monitor and evaluate their environmental status.
Behzad explained that the Kuwait Environment Protection Society had previously announced its support and participation in its annual program (Beach Safari) in the “Our Seas Are Clean” campaign launched by the United Nations Environment Programme with the aim of increasing environmental awareness and calling for attention to the country’s coasts, cleaning them and protecting their components, noting that the program’s activities are consistent with the United Nations campaign (Our Seas Are Clean), indicating that communication was made with the United Nations Environment Programme to include the program and register its activities in the “Our Seas Are Clean” campaign.
The Secretary General of the Environmental Protection Association concluded that the “Our Seas Are Clean” campaign, which was launched during the World Ocean Economic Summit in Bali, urges governments to commit to policies to reduce the use of plastic and calls on consumers to put an end to this habit of using plastic before it ends up in our seas. She pointed out that more than eight million tons of plastic materials are thrown into the oceans annually, causing damage to marine life, fisheries and tourism, and costing countries billions of dollars.
