Our monthly marine education programme aims to create awareness on local marine and coastal habitats to youths.  The schools are randomly selected based on their availability every month.  About 60 - 70 students visit from each school every month.  We give first priority to Government schools.  The selected schools usually arrive our centre at 9 am and return on 3 pm.  During this event, a presentaion on mangroves, seagrass beds is showed to students with photos and videos taken in local coastal area in order to be a realistic, practical awareness on local ecosystems.  After a tea break, the student walk to nearby mangroves with our education officer to learn about mangrove ecology and its benefits, followed by a short beach walk.  Then students view the exhibition of marine shells, research equipments and finally a demo of scuba dive in a small water tank.  The students can cooks eggs in solar cookers, use ecofriendly paddle pump and plant seedlings in our nursery.  Our centre is located in a very peaceful scenario, which is apt for learning about mother sea.

Palk Bay Center

One Day Marine Education Events