The Darwin Initiative, a global conservation programme funded by the UK includes several activities in the Caribbean among its successes. This article mentions achievements in Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands:
Montserrat is one of only two places in the world where the once-common amphibian can be found but was in danger of being wiped out after an outbreak of a fungal disease in 2008.
The mountain chicken has also suffered because of loss of habitat and threatened by hunters after its flesh which is said to taste like chicken.
Numbers are now on the rise thanks to funding from the Darwin Initiative – a scheme which aims to prevent damage to vulnerable wildlife and Earth’s ecosystems
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Anegada, the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands, was another beneficiary of the scheme.
It is the only inhabited island [in the BVI] formed of coral and limestone and is considered one of the most untouched islands in the Caribbean.
Because of the Darwin Initiative, the island, population 200, is now the subject of a bio-diversity plan and its plants, birds and marine turtles are now being closely monitored.
The brochure below highlights other success stories from the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, and Montserrat.
Find out more about the Darwin Initiative at darwin.defra.gov.uk.
[Photo: Wikimedia Commons]
