The Bahamas National Trust is a leading contender for this year’s Go Blue Business of the Year Award. The award recognises “outstanding contributions toward promoting and encouraging conservation, restoration, or preservation of marine life and/or marine ecosystems.”

Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Go Blue Awards is Florida’s premier ocean conservation event. Judges include renowned ocean conservationists like Fabien Cousteau and Jim Harvey of the Guy Harvey Foundation.

The Go Blue Awards were created to recognize individuals and groups that support Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s mission to promote ocean conservation, with a special focus on endangered sea turtles.

Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a non-profit sea turtle hospital in Juno Beach, Florida that hosts more than 200,000 visitors each year.

This year’s award finalists, were announced at a special reception in September at the PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach. Winners will be announced on October 28.

The BNT is a non-governmental, non-profit, membership organisation working to protect Bahamian natural resources by building a network of national parks and promoting environmental stewardship