Back to all ARIPO SAVANNA. A PART OF OUR NATIONAL HERITAGE BY MOLLY R. GASKIN PRESIDENT POINTE-A-PIERRE WILDFOWL TRUST Trinidad is blessed with an equable climate, beautiful mountains, tropical beaches, rainforest, flora and fauna comparable with almost any to be found elsewhere in the world. A land too, mostly free from natural disasters that plague […]
Back to all Climate Change Our atmosphere acts as transparent, protective covering around the earth. It lets in energy in the form of sunlight and retains heat. Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere are increasing at a faster rate than in the past million years. Temperatures are rising; weather patterns are changing, putting our
Back to all Life Sustaining Watersheds: Protect Them! We all live in a Watershed and survive because of it. A Watershed is an area of hilly or mountainous land from which water, RAINWATER, drains into streams, waterfalls, clear water pools, then into rivers and eventually into wetlands and the sea.Do we need them? Well, they
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Back to all Floods Again: Let’s Have Positive Action Now! Rain! More Rain! Floods. Thank God that there were no deaths this time, but, we never seem to learn. We knew that this would happen, but what did we do about it? Year after year, after year. When are we going to be pro-active and
Back to all THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW! CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LOSS OF OUR BIODIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE MOST URGENT CHALLENGES NOW FACING US ALL, HUMANKIND. WE MUST STOP THE RAPID DETERIORATION OF OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. WE MUST VALUE BIODIVERSITY FOR ITS OWN SAKE, AS STEWARDS OF THE LIVING EARTH WHICH IS
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Back to all Too high a price to pay THE EDITOR: Rain, more rain, torrential rain, floods, disaster. Were we, are we, prepared? It will happen again, perhaps even more disastrously so. First, did we clean our drains, canals and waterways before the rains began? Secondly, proliferation of mosquitoes, dengue, hundreds of cases of ChikV.
Back to all International experts Dr Joanna Ostapkowicz, Curator of the Liverpool Museum and Dr Fiona Brock, Post Doctoral Chemist, Radio-Carbon Lab, Oxford University recently visited the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust to research and to obtain samples from the wood pieces found in the Trust’s exhibit of First People’s artefacts for carbon-dating. The wood pieces form
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Back to all 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
Back to all The Moratorium on Hunting in T&T. The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust supports the call of other environmental organizations for the extension of the current moratorium on hunting in Trinidad & Tobago. For years we have warned of the serious threats to our wildlife; habitat loss, fragmentation and unsustainable pressure from over-hunting. Over-hunting in
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Back to all “Scarlet Ibis being killed freely in Felicity sometimes by the dozens, daily”. How many times, year after year must I call for this slaughter to stop! Again, ad nauseam, I repeat, a National Disgrace! This is our National Bird that we are hunting, slaughtering, selling, and eating! Have we no pride at
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