ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

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Our community-based field technicians are directly involved in our environmental monitoring programmes. We believe strongly that their hands-on experience, whether through working with:
 

• Global FinPrint - a global scale project focused on the conservation of traditionally exploited sharks in the region;

• Reef Check - observing first-hand any changes in the coral reefs that their own communities are directly dependent on;

• Coral Nursery - taking direct action to encourage the conservation and protection of critically endangered species;

• Turtle Sightings - an ongoing database recording all sightings of turtles, including critically endangered hawksbill turtles, endangered green turtles, and vulnerable leatherback turtles;

is crucial to comprehensive understanding of, and full engagement in, the challenges facing small island states today.

Most importantly, their knowledge, observations, understanding and experience equip them to act as communicators and disseminators within their communities, fostering a peer-to-peer knowledge exchange system that will promote the co-management of natural resources in northeast Tobago by a range of stakeholder groups.