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| Forest Fire could be started by the un-extinguished discarded smokers' butt on the forest floor |
Among the participants in our 20 days of intensive LNG course/boot camp, four were ladies, three of them were heavy smokers - we used to lovingly referred to them as the "Chimney Ladies" because sitting near them is like sitting near a chimney.
For Local Nature Guides, one of the worst nightmares is to be connected, or blamed for, starting forest fires especially during the prolonged drought seasons. It does not happened very often in the tropical rain forest as it rains most of the year but in cases of dry spell, forest fires do occur and it will bring with it untold havoc to properties and the environment.
So our trainer, who was himself a non-smoker, played a video that illustrated his point but sadly this did not deter the smokers' habit. In the following video clip, a Jamaican professional tourist guide conveyed beautifully and comically his messages to the tourists he was guiding who were entertained, rather than took offence at his joke, because of his unique style of presentation. It had been seen by about 4.8 million YouTube viewers.
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