Doing Good By Michael Thompson
The
Tides of Time
Jaeger-LeCoultre has teamed with UNESCO for eight years to protect the marine treasures on the World Heritage List. The manufacture’ s involvement includes both financial support and direct, on the ground( and in the seas) involvement. The project’ s goals include protecting the destruction of fragile ecosystems, especially the forty-seven marine sites, threatened by illegal fishing, pollution and unsustainable tourism. With the company’ s backing, UNESCO has been able to create a global network of marine managers who utilize UNESCO’ s Marine Program.
Jaeger-LeCoultre’ s work with UNESCO, called Tides of Time, was the subject of a recent exhibition this past June held at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Miami boutique, where guest speaker Alan Scott, Chief of Resource Education and Interpretation of the Everglades National Park, spoke about these initiatives. Among the projects detailed in the accompanying exhibit was a joint venture at Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica where surveillance vessels financed by Jaeger-LeCoultre now enable the park to better counter illegal fishing that pillages the oceans of species in danger of extinction. Similarly, at Glacier Bay Na-
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