Six Senses Con Dao recognized for its endangered green turtle conservation program

Dec. 8, 2020 - PRLog -- Con Dao National Park has been officially recognized as a member of the Indian Ocean-Southeast Asia (IOSEA), becoming the 11th member of the marine turtle conservation international network. The recognition honors great efforts to promote biodiversity conservation from Vietnam's authority, while confirming strong commitment to protect the country's rare species, particularly demonstrated in the turtle conservation in Con Dao region.

Six Senses Con Dao is proud to contribute to the collective effort. Consistent with the ethos of the group, Six Senses Con Dao develops and invites guests to share the responsibility to offset carbon footprint, while still experiencing total indulgence of "Sustainable Luxury".

In collaboration with Con Dao National Park, Six Senses incubation center "Let's Get Cracking" has since been home to many new turtle hatchings, with 2020 seeing a high successful hatching rate, 39 nests delivered to the resort for custodianship and over 1,915 turtles successful hatching and being released to the ocean. For the past 3 years, there have been 132 nests with 6,793 critically endangered newly hatched green sea turtles. With an average hatching rate of 80%, it represents the strong commitment that Six Senses Con Dao has in the conservation of these precious species.

Six Senses Con Dao is committed to work with ecologically minded suppliers to support our mission in making the resort virtually plastic free, maintaining clean ocean and land for the turtle nests, while educating local children with our weekly environmental and English class programs. There are programs in place to conserve energy, keep packaging to an absolute minimum, or is reused. The resort manages its own reverse osmosis plant and crystal water refinery, producing high quality drinking water without the use of plastic bottles. An organic vegetable garden also supports self-sustained food and beverages in the resort, drastically reducing the environmental footprint.

Driven by sustainability and its obligation to the environment and the community, Six Senses Con Dao has a long-term plan to restore the surrounding nature to its pristine condition, and to enhance the guest experience by simply respecting nature, by protecting these endangered turtles.

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