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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Save The Bays Chairman Joe Darville, a regular on radio, will host his own show dealing with a wide range of environmental matters at 5:15 pm on Thursdays starting February 11. The show will be broadcast live from 97.5 studios in Grand Bahama and Nassau. Thursday’s show features special guest Fred Smith, QC.
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Educator, human rights and environmental advocate Joseph Darville will host a weekly radio show dedicated to environmental news, challenges and opportunities starting Thursday, February 11 at 5:15
pm, according to the fast-growing environmental movement Save The Bays, which is sponsoring the show. The conversational style chat show called ‘Voice of The Bays, The Environment Speaks’ will feature different guests each week and will air on Love 97.5 in Nassau and Grand Bahama.
While Darville will host the drive-time show on Thursdays, a group of youngsters will be interviewed every other Saturday morning as the popular Youth Environment Ambassadors makes their new show, ‘Rise Up, Bahamas’, part of their activities.
Darville spoke today about the re-launch of the Thursday show.
“Some of our guests will be soft spoken, others outspoken. But all will have one thing in common – knowledge of and love for the environment,” said Darville, chairman of Save The Bays and the Bahamas Clifton Bay Waterkeeper Alliance delegate at the recent conference on climate change in Paris.
“When we are at meetings like the climate change conference in Paris, we are surrounded by people whose depth and breadth of knowledge is profound. It is that knowledge which motivates them to protect the natural resources and wonders of the world. You cannot set out to protect and preserve something if you don’t understand what the threats and dangers are or if you do not know the importance of its role to begin with. So our purpose in taking environment to the airwaves is to share information y and engage the general public. We want every single Bahamian and every single person living in this beautiful archipelagic nation to feel personally involved, to realize that the environment matters. It’s everyone’s business.”
Topics will range from coral reefs to climate change, solar power to proper mosquito control, unregulated development, proposed legislation, what household products impact health, why a closed grouper season, what role sharks play.
“We will cover any topic that involves resources that make The Bahamas what astronaut Scott Kelly called the most beautiful place on earth,” he said.
First guest will be immediate past chairman of Save The Bays Fred Smith, QC, Managing Partner Callenders & Co. law firm and the man who has led the legal campaign for Save The Bays, filing cases alleging violations surrounding unregulated development and environmental abuses.
“Radio is such an important means of reaching the public,” said Darville. “That is why in addition to ‘Voice of The Bays, The Environment Speaks’, resuming broadcasting with a new format, we are also sponsoring ‘Rise Up, Bahamas’, a Saturday show featuring our Youth Environment Ambassadors. The first
show, which aired last week, featured three internationally certified environmental leaders, Rashema Ingraham, Ruth Godet and McMahon Campbell, in Grand Bahama.
Radio is one of several means Save The Bays is using to drive home the message that the environment matters, it’s everyone’s business. It has been particularly successful on social media where it has gathered nearly 19,000 Likes. Among the organisation’s missions – calls for accountability and transparency in government, freedom of information legislation, an end to unregulated development and tough regulations around oil exploration. Save The Bays has also lauded government for certain steps, including the announcement that new marine protected areas would be declared. Its online petition www.savethebays.bs is nearing 7,000 signatures and its newest petition urging government not to scrap the 2010 Planning and Subdivision Act is quickly gaining numbers.
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