A Crying Shame

A CRYING SHAME. A NATIONAL DISGRACE!

We hunt, we kill and we EAT! Our National Bird! We celebrate Independence, Republic Day, Holidays!! Do we know, understand, CARE what it all means?
In the U S of A if ‘you’ are caught with ONE FEATHER of their National Bird, you can be jailed AND fined heavily. Have we no pride at all in ourselves, our Country in what we are supposed to stand for?!

Years ago, the PaP Wildfowl Trust together with other NGO’s spearheaded a drive to have our National Bird made a Protected Species. We succeeded. We appealed then, as we appeal now for help for the Forestry/ Wildlife Division for more licensed and properly armed Game Wardens to patrol and protect our valuable Wetlands, Forests and their species. There are just 11 men, if so many now, to patrol and protect all of Trinidad and Tobago. Are we joking?! Let us stop this abomination NOW. Let us take more pride in ourselves. Stop the killing of our Scarlet Ibis. Stop the killing of our NATIONAL BIRD.

Molly R. Gaskin
President
Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust