The Caribbean Invasive Alien Species Network is an initiative coordinated by the Caribbean and Latin American Office of the Centre for Agriculture and Bio-Sciences International (CABI):
CABI Caribbean & Latin America is coordinating a project entitled “Mitigating the threat of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular Caribbean”. We are working with 11 international, seven regional and more than 25 national partners from five island nations across the insular Caribbean; namely the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic and St Lucia. This project aims to broaden the approach to deal with invasive alien species both by strengthening existing national capacity and measures and by fostering regional cooperation frameworks through which Caribbean-wide strategies can be developed.
Regional consultations will be held on marine, terrestrial, and freshwater aquatic invasives which will provide the basis for a cooperative Caribbean wide strategy and policy for dealing with invasive alien species in the Caribbean. This will build on the Caribbean Invasive Species Working Group’s (CISWG) Caribbean Regional Invasive Species Intervention Strategy (CRISIS) – which currently focuses on agricultural invasives – by including invasive species which threaten biodiversity. The project will also develop regional strategies for marine, terrestrial and aquatic species.
Find out more at the network’s website, ciasnet.org; the site:
documents some of the key actions to addressing this issue in a way that promotes the actions; the results achieved. It will also give details on a range of invasive alien species of importance to the Caribbean while highlighting the people and organisations that are pioneering the work with these species that can potentially threaten our health and livelihoods; disrupt both intra-regional and international trade and impact our environment by threatening native and endemic Caribbean biodiversity. It is intended that this will be a one stop shop for information on invasive alien species in the Caribbean.
If you’d like to browse the CIASNET site, the document repository is a good place to start.
