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| TETEPARE MEDIA COVERAGE |
Tetepare and the TDA are attracting media attention in the Solomons, across the Pacific and in Australia. In recent years, we have featured in several publications and broadcasts, including: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TO FILM TETEPARE ISLAND Solomon Times, June 1, 2010 "The highly acclaimed National Geographic Society is coming to the Solomon Islands to film the unique ecology of Tetepare Island in the Western province." Read the full story online here.
TETEPARE DESCENDANTS LEARN NEW HOSPITALITY SKILLS Solomon Times, July 16, 2009 "The Tetepare Descendants’ Association held a three-day hospitality workshop on Tetepare Island this month, in an effort to promote sustainable livelihoods in the Western Province."
PROJECT PARADISE GT Magazine, Geelong Advertiser, June 2009 "Michaela Farrington's backyard has to be seen to be believed. Her Melanesian leaf house is surrounded by a lush rainforest canopy bursting with wildlife, waterfalls and flowering trees.
NEW LIVELIHOODS FOR TETEPARE DESCENDANTS Solomon Star, June 1, 2009 "The Tetepare Descendants’ Association held its first ever sustainable livelihoods workshop this month – an organic gardening and livelihoods workshop on Rendova Island in the Western Province."
RECORD TURTLE HATCHLINGS EXCITE SCIENTISTS Radio Australia Pacific Beat, May 11, 2009 "Conservationists in Solomon Islands are celebrating the hatching of a record number of endangered "Local rangers spent six months watching over the beach, moving nests and protecting baby Listen to the podcast of the story online, at the Radio Australia website
WESTERN SOLOMONS REEFS IN EXCELLENT HEALTH Pacific Islands Report, May 5, 2009 "HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Times, May 5, 2009) A recent survey of coral reefs around Tetepare Island, in the Western Province, has confirmed the islands reefs are in excellent health."
1000 CRITICALLY ENDANGERED TURTLES HATCHED ON TETEPARE BEACHES Pacific Islands News Association, May 5, 2009
TDA CELEBRATES RECORD-BREAKING TURTLE SEASON Solomon Star, May 4, 2009 "The Tetepare Descendants' Association is celebrating a record-breaking turtle-hatching season on Tetepare Island in the Western Province. At the close of the turtle-hatching seaon on Tetepare last week, the TDA announced that more than 800 critically endangered leatherback turtles hatched on Tetepare beaches during this season. And almost 300 endangered green turtles hatched on Tetepare where rangers are working to save these endangered turtle species."
1000 CRITICALLY ENDANGERED TURTLES HATCHED ON TETEPARE BEACHES Solomon Times Online, May 4, 2009
1000 ENDANGERED TURTLES HATCH IN SOLOMONS Pacific Islands Report, May 4, 2009 "HONIARA, Solomon Islands, The Tetepare Descendants' Association (TDA) is celebrating a record-breaking turtle hatching season on Tetepare Island in the Western Province."
TETEPARE'S REEFS IN TOP SHAPE Solomon Star, May 4, 2009 "A recent survey of coral reefs around Tetepare Island in the Western Province, has confirmed the island's reefs are in excellent health.''
SAVING PARADISE - CONSERVATION OF TETEPARE Melanesian Geo, April, 2009 "Tetepare's story is one to inspire communities and conservationists across the Pacific - the story of a wild island and its lost people who found a way to stand together to conserve one of the world's truly magical places."
MEET THE WOMEN TAKING CARE OF OUR WORLD Marie Claire Australia, April, 2009 "They ditched their days jobs to volunteer overseas - and never looked back. Naomi Jaul talks to five Australians making a difference...." A story featuring TDA technical advisor Michaela Farrington and her work helping the TDA on Tetepare Island.
DIVE IN, THE WATER'S LOVELY virginblue Voyeur inflight magazine, March, 2009 "Perhaps one of the best ways to experience the Solomon Islands is by venturing out into the hundreds of tiny villages and islands - inhabited or otherwise - that are scattered around the main tourist areas.... You can organise a trip to the Western Province's Tetepare, the largest non-inhabited island in the South Pacific, off which you can swim in waters teeming with dugongs and turtles. At certain times of the year, you can even camp out on the beaches with the rangers and watch leatherback turtles nesting.''
THE JOURNEY BEGINS HERE Solomon Star, February 26, 2009 Front page story. "A hatched leatherback turtle makes its way to the sea after emerging from a nest last week on the island of Tetepare in Western Province. Leatherback is an endangered turtle species facing extinction. On Tetepare where internationally recognised conservation efforts are being carried out, rangers witnessed a record number of leatherback hatchilngs on the island and making their way out to sea..."
LEATHERBACK HATCHING IN NUMBERS ON TETEPARE Solomon Star, February 25, 2009 Read the story online, at the Solomon Star website.
SOLOMONS WORK TO SAVE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED LEATHERBACKS Radio Australia, Pacific Beat, January 5, 2009 Listen to the podcast of the story online, at the Radio Australia website.
LEATHERBACKS LURE TOURISTS TO TETEPARE Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, December 31, 2008
LEATHERBACKS LURE TOURISTS TO TETEPARE Solomon Star, December 31, 2008 Read the story online, at the Solomon Star website.
ENDANGERED TURTLES DRAW TOURISTS TO THE SOLOMONS Pacific Islands Report, December 31, 2008 Read the story online, on the Pacific Islands Report website.
RARE LEATHERBACKS ATTRACT TOURSITS TO THE SOLOMON ISLANDS Samoa Observer, December 31, 2008 Read the story online, on the Samoa Observer website.
CHOISEUL TRIBE ON LOOK AND LEARN TO TETEPARE Solomon Star, November 3, 2008 "The Qoza tribe from north Choiseul visited Tetepare Island on a 'look and learn ' tour last week..."
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