4 days with Alexandra Cousteau, mother/wife/explorer and an heir to a name
But papa, you can’t eat the fish,” exclaims five-year-old Clémentine. “That’s who we’re trying to save!”
But papa, you can’t eat the fish,” exclaims five-year-old Clémentine. “That’s who we’re trying to save!”
During her Philippine visit from Aug. 29 to Sept. 11, Alexandra Cousteau swam with turtles in Apo Island, spoke before students at Silliman University in Dumaguete and the University of Cebu, met with (and obtained commitments from) government officials such as Vice President Leni Robredo and Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, and checked out an artificial reef installed by the El Nido Foundation in a previously dynamited area in Tres Marias, El Nido.
The visit of Alexandra Cousteau has thrust Oceana Philippines, the two-year-old local office of environmental organization Oceana, into the spotlight.
Alexandra Cousteau was seven when her grandfather, France’s diving legend Jacques Cousteau, taught her to dive. Bonding time was spent literally under the sea pretending she was a mermaid princess
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