Change your lifestyle
Eat local products as most of these will be fresh and therefore healthier as they contain more vitamins compared to tinned or frozen products that are generally imported. By choosing local products you reduce your carbon footprint significantly as imported items use a lot of fuel during transportation to Seychelles, making these items generally more expensive.
Rethink your travelling options as cars and planes produce large quantities of Greenhouse gases. They are also quite noisy and expensive! |
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Rethink your leisure activities so as to minimise your impact on the environment. |
- Instead of going to an expensive air conditioned gym, try walking or jogging on the beach at dawn or dusk at least 3 times a week. If the beach is too far away, try walking along the road or on mountain trails with friends. Choose sports that do not use energy or petrol. For example, windsurf rather than jet-ski.
- Encourage your children to play outside rather than in front of the TV or the computer. It’s healthier and consumes less electrical energy!
- Join environmental actions on National Theme days, such as Clean-Up the World
- Go on a hike with some friends. There are a number of mountain trails which are being maintained by the Seychelles National Parks Authority (SNPA). Trail guides are available from the Botanical Gardens at Mont Fleuri.
- When choosing a weekend getaway, try somewhere with an ecological or conservation policy, such as Bird Island or the Valée de Mai on Praslin.
- Learn more about your natural environment or help your local community by volunteering with a local NGO. You can read up on the local flora and fauna by buying a book in Victoria or borrow a book from the library.