9. Protect Coastal Habitat & Cultural Heritage

Protecting coastal habitat & cultural heritage is a key strategy to coastal habitat and ocean protection.


Sea life depends on the beaches, estuaries, marshes, sea grass, and wetlands for their survival.  Tourism depends on clean and healthy beaches for its economy.


The Waves of Change partner Tampa Bay Watch has been a model for preserving coastal habitat through a variety of programs including:

Walt Disney Vero Beach Resort offers a model for tourist industry involvement through such programs as:

Protecting cultural heritage includes any form of artistic or symbolic material signs which are handed on from generation to generation to each culture. Cultural heritage can be tangible or intangible.


Intangible cultural heritage is defined by UNESCO as practices, expressions, knowledge, skills that communities, groups and in some cases individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage” . Tangible cultural heritage is often also referred to as cultural property. Cultural property is movable or immovable property with importance to the cultural heritage of every people, for instance buildings and books.


Protecting cultural heritage involves a number of strategies including but not limited to:

 

Sensitivity to cultural heritage can begin in the early development of tourist facilities.

A case in point is the Disney Alunai Resort in Hawaii.  Some of the strategies developed by Disney to preserve cultural heritage for this resort include but are not limited to: