Diane and Howard have brought an experienced team together at Seahorse Point, an exciting place to live, visit or stay for a few days. Options include:
- Stays of two nights or more, any night of the week, half board, for individuals, couples, families and groups. Share a truly exceptional and safe experience, immersed in nature: witness everything from wildlife on land and sea to bioluminescence, phosphorescence and the constellations and planets under dark Bocas skies, and enjoy all the site amenities, from the swimming pool to the tree net, the kayaks and the Seagrass Café by the dock. We can design a bespoke programme to ensure all interests are met.
- Executive planning groups aspiring to do even more across their organisations can see first hand how their actions could have an impact, with no interruptions other than monkeys or sloths trying to steal the show.
- Small bespoke tours interested in permaculture, local food preparation and culture.
- Professors, postgraduate students, researchers wishing to undertake teaching or collect data can find a comfortable venue and facilities to support their data collection and communication efforts.
- Day visits, 10am to 3pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays (Sundays by appointment): a self-guided day pass or a full guided tour, with the tree net, the mangrove boardwalk, the Forest of Flavours, the science centre microscopes and the Seagrass Café. Kayaks, the electric boat and the workshops are booked as extras, and the café can prepare a light lunch for groups of more than four who book in advance. Details and prices are on the Visits page.
We look forward to sharing our journey. The Seahorse Point Team are striving to achieve: 1.
- Zero discharge from toilets, biogas production, and methane is used for cooking. Research into appropriate technologies commenced.
- Plastic, metal and glass recycling for use in our community nursery -plant nursery established
- All water is rainwater from the roof - achieved. 20,000 litres of water stored on site, not including swimming pool water.
- All power is solar - achieved (but a generator is on hand for emergencies)
- Growing our greens, herbs and veggies - raised beds filled with our own compost established, commencing aeroponics and food forest April - June 2025
- Use all waste cardboard for recycling to create new soil Achieved and ongoing
- Construction/furnishing waste - zinc and wood reused on local village roofs, oven deployed for school kitchen, excess beds and bedding donated to families in need
- Rebuild walkway through the Red and Black mangroves without cutting any mangroves Achieved
- Clear and make safe the 3km walk and bridges through the jungle Link bridge complete
- Caimans, Shrek and Fiona - Achieved: a safe lagoon established for animals and humans alike
Why nature matters
In most high-income countries, we have lost contact with nature; however, all life on earth and the survival of humanity depend upon nature on land and marine life in the oceans.
According to the WWF and others, we have lost 70% of all life on Earth because of overexploitation and pollution. Over the next 20 years, humanity will have wiped out more than 90% of all life on earth compared to 1970 and more than 99% compared to 1900. We cannot survive without nature, but few people and organisations are even aware of our precarious situation.
One of the missions that we have is to introduce people and organisations to nature and explain the risks associated with pollution, including toxic chemicals that pose an existential threat to humanity.
Without a ban on these hazardous chemicals, we risk killing all of nature, yet the EU has reversed their plan to ban 12,000 of these toxic forever chemicals due to industry pressure.
Unfortunately, the EU is also dropping the ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and sending thousands of tonnes to low-income countries. Even worse, the UK is allowing the use of these banned chemicals.
We must take action now to protect the planet and our future.
3 million metric tonnes of pesticides are discharged into the environment every year.
In 10 to 20 years, most insects (90% or more) on the planet will have been destroyed; this includes pollinators as well as soil biome insects. They are critical for our survival; terrestrial ecology will collapse as well as agriculture. The chemicals used by farmers are going to destroy our food supply. 385 million people fall ill every year from pesticide poisoning; these are mutagenic chemicals whose exposure causes cancer and, in some cases, DNA damage that could be passed down the generations. https://lnkd.in/evh7CpDp
I fail to understand why we continue to allow the use of toxic chemicals. Does the industry not know that it is poor business sense to kill your customers? Have they not heard of ecocide? Is the government so weak that it cannot stand up to industry? There is something very wrong here.
I call on the financial sector to get their act together and start exerting their influence over finance and insurance for polluting industries. The KPMG/MMIT study showed a decline until 2030, followed by a possible societal collapse by 2040.
We already know marine life is going to collapse between 2035 and 2045 due to ocean acidification, pollution, microplastics, and partially combusted carbon combined with toxic forever chemicals, and we know these chemicals become even more dispersed over land in rainfall. Terrestrial ecosystems will collapse at the same time. Every living organism on the planet contains toxic forever chemicals and molecular plastic, and it's only going to get worse.
The evidence is all there; how do we ban these chemicals? If this task cannot be achieved, then I cannot see a way forward for Nature and Humanity.