Turkish students on environmental visit to Sanibel
Posted on: November 27, 2008
Written by Select Property
Students and teachers from the prestigious Koc International School in Istanbul, Turkey began their visit to Sanibel in Florida with a visit to the unique Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum.
The group’s visit was part of an exercise in the study of global conservation and the environmental impact of urbanization and tourism on world ecosystems and the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum was chosen because of its excellence as an environmental museum. Sanibel also has one of the best examples of environmental conservation efforts in the face of increased tourism.
The Turkish visitors were treated to a guided tour of the museum, where they had the opportunity to touch and observe live mollusks before touring the various exhibits. A display concerning the use of shells as currency attracted particular attention when students discovered that Calusa Indians could buy a wife for about 50,000 shells.
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