Partnerships for Resilience: Caribbean Fish Sanctuaries (22min) was produced by the CARIBSAVE Partnership to increase awareness of the potential benefits that fish sanctuaries (also known as marine protected areas, no-take-zones or conservation areas) can generate for the environment, for fisheries and for the local community. The film emphasizes the importance of getting fishermen involved in [...]
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Environmental awareness raising in St. Lucia, through the interactive Our Planet centre
A state of the art interactive environmental education centre has opened in St. Lucia: Our Planet is the only interactive visitor centre of its kind in the world. At Our Planet visitors can: • Walk through the Immersion Tunnel showing how our Planet and its climate started; • Sit in the “Mirrorsphere” and see a [...]
Renewable energy in the Caribbean
The Caribbean islands are still almost entirely dependent on oil for their electricity needs. Renewable energy plays a negligible role in the region’s energy supply despite the fact that geographical and climate conditions are ideal. Theoretically, the islands could meet all their electricity needs with geothermal energy and hydropower – and slowly but surely, that [...]
Caribbean leaders “are only pretending to care” about agriculture
At a recent meeting in St. Lucia, Caribbean small farmers expressed dissatisfaction with the level of support they are receiving from their governments: Small farmer organisations from across the Caribbean have criticized regional governments and their bureaucrats for leaving them to “see for themselves” during a period of rising food prices and declining agricultural products. [...]
Lionfish workshop in St. Lucia
The St. Lucia Fisheries Department will be hosting a workshop to help develop a national response to the lionfish invasion: The Department of Fisheries with support from the ‘Mitigating the Threat of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular Caribbean Project’ will be hosting a National Marine Invasive Species- Lionfish Stakeholder Workshop on Monday 28 and [...]
World Water Day in the Caribbean
Tomorrow (March 22) is World Water Day 2011. The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) has prepared a list of Water Day events planned by its partners across the Caribbean. The Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association, along with several partners, will be organising a Water Week in St. Lucia, with the theme of “Alternative Sources for a [...]
Regional aquaculture development meeting being held in Jamaica
The first Caribbean Regional Workshop on Aquaculture Development Planning is currently underway in Jamaica. According to this information note from the Secretariat of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism, the meeting is part of a sustainable fisheries management project supported by the Japanese government: The CARICOM / CRFM / JICA Project: Study on Formulation of Master [...]
New Caribbean species: the Bonaire banded box jellyfish, aka Tamoya ohboya
Ten years after the first recorded sighting of the Bonaire banded box jellyfish, it has been formally recognised as a new species, with the name Tamoya ohboya. The Smithsonian Institution reports: The words “box jelly” may bring to mind something sweet and tasty, but the banded box jelly of Bonaire is a highly venomous jellyfish [...]
