Kuredu Resort Maldives has opened a Marine Centre.

The new Marine Centre, established in association with Prodivers and the Olive Ridley Project, allows the resort to provide a better experience for its guests, who already consider seeing the surrounding marine life a big highlight of their stay. It will also help conserve, protect and understand the natural environment that the island is situated in.

The centre serves as the go-to venue for information on turtles and an institution whose findings will feed into the important work of the Olive Ridley Project.

“I joined the Olive Ridley Project Team in November 2017 as a Sea Turtle Biologist and Educator. I will be the projects representative in the Lhaviyani atoll, aiming to combine scientific work with education. I will be studying the sea turtle population of the Lhaviyani atoll and help retrieve and document ghost nets,” Sea Turtle Biologist and Educator Dr Stephanie Köhnk, who heads the new Marine Centre, was quoted in an announcement, as saying.

“Additionally, I will share information about sea turtles in general, the unique turtle population around Kuredu and the problem of ghost nets in our oceans. I am happy to answer your questions and looking forward to seeing you in the Marine Centre, which is located on Kuredu’s ‘main avenue’. If I’m not in the office, I’m in the ocean looking for turtles… What a dream job!”