His Excellency Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman of Tourism Investment & Development Company (TDIC) and Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, has received the influential Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) ‘Editor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement of the Year 2012’ for his leadership of TDIC’s Hawksbill Sea Turtle Conservation Programme.

This award, which is the pinnacle of the annual MEED Quality Awards for Projects, was given to Sheikh Sultan in recognition of his leadership of the Hawksbill Conservation Programme on Saadiyat Island. MEED Editor Richard Thompson said it also reflects Abu Dhabi’s leadership in encouraging sustainable development and environmental conservation in the Gulf.

TDIC’s Hawksbill Turtles Conservation programme, the only one of its kind in the Arabian Gulf, has ensured that the now critically endangered Hawksbill turtles continue to nest on the island’s sweeping beachfront despite development which has culminated in the opening of the Saadiyat Beach Golf Course, the five-star The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort and Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Villas and the Monte-Carlo Beach Club, Saadiyat.

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