Operation Wallacea (OpWall) is: an organisation funded by tuition fees that operates biological and conservation management research programmes in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind – from identifying areas needing protection through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. The videos above highlight OpWall’s work [...]
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Shell Beach and the Kanuku Mountains are Guyana’s newest protected areas
The list of legally protected conservation areas in Guyana is growing: The Kanuku Mountains in Region Nine and Shell Beach in Region One have been added to Guyana’s list of protected areas by President Bharrat Jagdeo. The announcement was made on Thursday by government spokesman Dr. Roger Luncheon at a news conference at the Office [...]
New USAID funding available for Caribbean research on sustainable development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced a new funding programme to support the work of scientists in (among other developing countries) the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti and Jamaica, particularly those doing research about food security, climate change and sustainable development: USAID and NSF are [...]
Sustainable livelihoods in Almond Beach, Guyana
The Guyana Information Agency (GINA) reports on the pursuit of sustainable livelihoods in a coastal community: Along the 90-mile long stretch of beach in the Northwestern Region of Guyana, popularly known as Shell Beach, is the nesting ground for several species of endangered sea turtles including the Leatherback, Hawksbill, Green and Olive Ridley. These turtles [...]
Green Gold: hydroponics in Guyana
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a project to educate farmers in Guyana about hydroponic agriculture. This was to be done, in part, via the production and distribution of a training video. The video is now available online, and you can watch it below: The Shadehouse Project in Guyana is working with farmers [...]
Project promotes hydroponics for farmers in Guyana
Farmer to Farmer volunteers have been working in Guyana to promote the adoption of hydroponic gardening: Partners of the Americas, Farmer-to-Farmer volunteers, Cheryl Diermyer and Pat Fellows of Wisconsin, have been working with staff at the Guyana Hydroponic Shadehouse Production and Marketing Project on the production of a hydroponic gardening training video, “Harvesting Green Gold.” [...]
Facebook helps Smithsonian scientists identify 5,000 specimens of fish from Guyana
A remarkable story from the Smithsonian Institution: Last month, a team of ichthyologists sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History performed the first survey of the fish diversity in the Cuyuni River of Guyana. Upon their return, they needed to identify the more than 5,000 specimens they had collected in less than a [...]
Honey production in Guyana
The Farmer to Farmer blog recently published a brief piece about the prospects for the development of a honey industry in Guyana: …Guyana honey producers are still a long way off from meeting domestic demand for honey. The beverage company, Banks Beer which uses large volumes of imported honey, alone would be a sizable contract [...]
