Coral Reef Rehabilitation Sustainability Initiative — Project GO! Les Village Bali
I was fortunate to embark on an unconventional ecotourism field trip with the Temasek Team formed by a mixture of employees from different departments on the 13–16 of Oct 2019. Project GO! is a series of sustainability initiatives by Temasek’s Sustainability and Stewardship Group. They lead the firm’s initiatives around the themes of sustainability and stewardship. In this post, I hope to share about my unique dive experience and key takeaways from it.
Les Village is situated at the Northen tip of the island. It is a small, quaint and rural destination but a very warm and wholesome place. The winding roads took the bus three hours to get from Bali’s Denpasar Airport to the village.
Once there, you get immersed in the local Balinese culture, and the experience vastly differs from what you would expect of the typical resort genre.
Over the course of the four days of the trip, the three main activities we took part in were the coral reef rehabilitation, the highlight of this trip, a plastics recycling initiative and experiencing the life of salt farmers.
