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Debt for Nature Swaps: A New Conservation Tool in the Eastern Caribbean
I still haven’t figured how Debt-for-Nature swaps work, but they obviously will be a key funding instrument for the nascent Caribbean Challenge, which will be a new experience for the Eastern Caribbean (OECS, more or less) SIDS — Jamaica and … [Read more]
Pictures of Invasive Lemongrass-stimulated Fires in Antigua
On the SIRMM Facebook page, Ruleta Camacho posted these scary photos of the massive fires that swept through much of the middle ground areas of the Body Ponds watershed in Antigua. [Read more]
Destruction of wetlands — St.Kitts
The island of St.Kitts has several large ponds & wetlands which support a variety of different species and is rich in biodiversity. One of the main ponds at Half Moon Bay is now threatened with construction by investors. [Read more]
Dr. Michael O’Neal, Senior Research Fellow , Publishes Book on BVI Social History
Dr. Michael O’Neal is Senior Research Fellow at Island Resources Foundation and former President of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College at in the British Virgin Islands. Dr. O’Neal’s monograph on Virgin Islands social history, entitled Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism: Social Transformations … [Read more]
Another Honor for Euan McFarlane Award Winner, Diana McCaulay
Thanks to Caribbean Environmental Reporters Network for pointing us to http://www.susumba.com/ for word of Diana McCaulay’s Commonwealth Caribbean award for her recent short story, “The Dolphin Catcher”:Jamaica Cops Commonwealth Regional PrizesTan… [Read more]
International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations
from Nature:Letters (which suggests the article is not fully peer-reviewed), information about a very important study that illustrates the direct links between globalization and threats to biodiversity and important habitats. [Read more]
Stanford U. Documents Land-Sea Ecosystem Linkages
An interesting study that provides rigorous proof of a truism for those of us who live in and study small islands: land and sea systems are closely linked. [Read more]
World Bank Includes Marine Environmental Indicators in annual "Little Green Data Book for 2012"
The marine indicators may make the data from this major annual report more useful to islands. [Read more]
The April Newsletter of the Antigua-Barbuda Historical and Archeological Society
The Newsletter of the Historical and Archeological Society of Antigua-Barbuda — The document below can be read on-line or downloaded. [Read more]
Limits to Development or “Do We Need a ‘Steady State Economy?”
The particular case of St. Marten; Sint Maarten, from the Green Antilles blog of Therese Yarde at Sint Maarten: Paradise in Peri [Read more]
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