“As a family we have always spent a lot of time on or near the sea, and it has always been the great love of my life,” says Princess Zahra Aga Khan. “I believe that it’s too late to reverse the molecular-level pollution in all the seas and oceans of our planet, but we can do a great deal to improve human behaviour, to reduce pollution and overfishing, and therefore to improve the habitat of ocean flora and fauna around the world.” Hence her commitment to “raising awareness about these crucial issues”.
Educated at Harvard and based in Geneva, where she was born, Princess Zahra works for her father, His Highness the Aga Khan, managing the health and education services of the Aga Khan Development Network, which oversees not-for-profit health and education programmes and institutions in 12 countries. But she spends what leisure time she has by, on, or better yet in the sea (she is president of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Sardinia).
“I started diving aged 15 and became a divemaster in 1991,” she says. “I have witnessed first-hand the degradation of the ocean environment around the world, with ever increasing visible and invisible pollution, dwindling fish populations, climate-affected reefs and man-made population swings.”
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I must say a very serious Foundation.Best regards Solon Lechonitis
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So happy to hear the Aga Khan and Princess Zahra are doing something to save our oceans which for a long
time have been abused, causing havoc in the sea world. I’ve always loved the oceans and have not seen or heard of anyone paying attention to what mankind are doing to the ocean. Am proud the Aga Khan is doing so.
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