Green Antilles will be on holiday until Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Best wishes for the season and for the new year! [Photo: Alby Headrick]
Archive | December, 2010
National Geographic blog highlights turtle tracking in Bonaire
Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire has been featured on the National Geographic “Inside Wild” blog: Sea turtles can swim hundreds – and sometimes thousands – of miles to reach different areas of marine habitat. Tracking this highly migratory species by satellite is shedding light on sea turtles’ unique feeding locations and pathways of movement. Sea Turtle [...]
Cuba ahead of other Caribbean countries in climate change preparedness
The Jamaica Gleaner reports that Cuba is more prepared for the potential effects of climate change than other Caribbean countries: While Cuba is prepared for the significant climate change that is set to adversely impact the Caribbean, other countries in the region are said to be lagging behind in their preparation efforts. Dr Barbara Carby, [...]
Jamaica’s environmental protection agency criticised as weak, ineffective
The National Environmental and Planning Agency in Jamaica has received some harsh criticism: THE Auditor General’s Department (AGD) has poured scorn on the key government agency mandated to regulate environmental activities and ensure the orderly development of Jamaica. In a damning audit report released this week, the Auditor General said the important National Environment and [...]
Call for papers: 29th West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference
The Caribbean Agro-Economic Society has issued a call for papers for the 29th West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference. The conference theme is “Agribusiness as the Path to Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Caribbean”: The Caribbean Agro-Economic Society was formally launched on April 8, 1974 at the Ninth West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference in Jamaica. The [...]
Vacancy: Resident Lecturer – Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values, Turks and Caicos Islands
The School for Field Studies has a vacancy for a Resident Lecturer in their Marine Resource Management Studies programme in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI): Find out more about the School for Field Studies TCI marine programme at their website: SFS is working with the TCI government’s Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR) [...]
Trini Eco Warriors rescue rare Pawi bird
Members of the Trini Eco Warriors recently posted great story about the rescue of an endangered Pawi bird from a pair of hunters. This is the story that unfolded yesterday evening after we had returned from our hike to Madamas. We had stopped on the side of the road in Brasso Seco to rest a [...]
Nature reserve on Belize-Guatemala border threatened by poachers and hydro plant proposal
Belize’s Channel 5 News reports on threats to the Bladen Nature Reserve: A fly-over of the Bladen Nature Reserve, bordering with Guatemala, provides a bird’s eye view of the rich vegetation of our tropical forests. The protected area, however, is being systematically plundered by those engaged in export of the lucrative xate and by poachers [...]
