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Sedna Chetti, Director of Montessori International School: In the last 20 years a lot has changed. Recently we have a lot of people working towards 4conservation. There's a lot of young people coming forward, which is why we're interested in working together with the kids. My name is Sedna Chetti. I am the director of Montessori International School, located here in the Seychelles. Montessori International School is a preschool for children between 0 to 6 years old. The first years of life I think is the most important to everyone. That's when we're really 5absorbing the most and that's when we're learning the most from our environment. So, for the last few days we've been going around with the kids to teach them a bit about our atolls, and also why we need to protect it.

CNN Correspondent: A recent 6study 7estimated that more than 500 tons of 8marine plastic 9debris have 10accumulated on Aldabra, the largest of the Seychelles atolls about 1,000 kilometers Southwest of Mahe Island.

Corianna Julie, Communications Officer, Seychelles Islands Foundation: So, we have a lot of plastic litter 11collected on the beaches and this is marine debris and they have terrible, terrible effects on the 12ecosystem.

Sedna Chetti: Bringing the kids out in nature, it builds a certain love and 13acceptance to nature. More than it is about conservation, it is also about their growth and development and how in touch they will be as they grow older to animals, to plants.