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'Explore lightly': Palau makes all visitors sign pledge to respect environment
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 14, 2017 08:50pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Calla Wahlquist |
| News Date | Friday, December 15, 2017 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has introduced a new law requiring visitors to sign a pledge not to harm the environment before entering the country.
The pledge will be stamped into the passports of international arrivals from this month.
Visitors will be required to sign before proceeding through immigration, making a formal promise to the children of Palau to “preserve and protect your beautiful and unique island home”, and to “tread lightly, act kindly and explore lightly”.
Almost 6,000 people signed in the first two weeks.
It’s the first time such a pledge has been written into a country’s immigration policies, but Palau has long been vocal about the environment.
The country has already reported larger tides and an increase in severe tropical storms. The sea level around its 700 islands has risen by about 9mm a year since 1993, almost three times the global average rate. |
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