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Friday 10 July 2015

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RBC Blue Water Project:

Volunteers Clean Up Simpson Bay Beach to Support Turtle Nesting

PHILIPSBURG - Over 20 RBC now Simpson Bay for the tic debris and litter. RBC son fits perfectly into RBC’s operates by maximizing its
Volunteers gathered in the duration of the turtle nest- Royal Bank supports the philosophy on the sustain- contributions to the state
early morning on June 20 at ing season from March till awareness building on the able development of the of environment of the is-
Simpson Bay Beach to start November each year and topic of turtle nesting and environment. RBC Royal land.
the RBC volunteer beach commits to support with the preservation of a clean Bank firmly believes that it The Nature Foundation
clean-up, aimed at help- building awareness on sea beach for humans and tur- is the responsibility of the would like to commend
ing make the turtle nesting turtle nesting tles specifically. This project bank to positively influence and thank RBC and espe-
area on that beach more The cleanup delivered in- of cleaning up the beach the social development of cially the volunteers for the
accessible for the endan- cluded garbage with plas- for the turtle nesting sea- the community in which it hard work they did on Sat-
gered Hawksbill, Leather- urday morning. St. Maarten
back and Green sea turtles is one of the few territories
which nest on Simpson Bay in the Caribbean where
Beach. These sea turtles turtles come up the beach
have made it their nesting to lay their eggs. Through
beach in the period from the excellent work done by
March to November each RBC volunteers the beach
year. is now clean for nesting tur-
The beach cleanup was tles to lay their eggs.
organized in conjunction By means of this environ-
with Nature Foundation St. mental initiative RBC Royal
Maarten (NFS), and initiat- Bank moreover wants to
ed in connection with the add value to its environ-
“RBC Blue Water Day 2015 mental footprint in the St.
Project” which is the envi- Maarten community and
ronmental priority program most importantly dem-
for RBC Royal Bank focus- onstrate the bank’s com-
ing on the preservation of mitment to the develop-
the world’s most precious ment and preservation of
natural resource: water. the environment of the
RBC in St. Maarten has island through the ac-
been committed to clean tive engagement of its
Guana Bay in the past and employees.q