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Large Female Tiger Shark in Anguilla
from The Anguillian TIGER SHARK CAUGHT OFF CAPTAIN’S BAY Published by anguillian on March 22, 2013 [Tiger shark being pulled to shore at Island Harbour bay (picture caption)] It does not happen very often but when it does, it creates … [Read more]
Virgin Islands is now part of a GPS Observational Network
Department of Disaster Management (DDM) – Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at 12:05 PM The Virgin Islands is now part of a Continuously Operating Caribbean Global Positioning System Observational Network, which will aid in the monitoring, understanding and prediction of earthquakes, … [Read more]
Huffington Post on Lemurs: speech by Russell Mittermeier, pres. Conservation International
Madagascar is one of the world’s most heavily impacted countries in terms of recent habitat destruction, and its globally unique species are sending us an urgent warning. Nearly 90 percent of its natural vegetation has already been lost, and erosion on the island is severe. [Read more]
New Plant Species Discovered on Anegada
Attached please find a press release from Island Resources Foundation (IRF) concerning the discovery of a new plant species on Anegada. The discovery was made by two IRF researchers carrying out field studies for the Anegada Environmental Profile. The release … [Read more]
Global Perspectives on Biodiversity
The report presented below reports on global survey results from a coordinated global data collection effort held on September 15th, 2012, in advance of the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Hyderabad, India … [Read more]
Data Visualization: An Essential Skill for the 21st Century
The only way that we’re going to be able to cope with the tera-bytes (and up) of data that are now accessible to anyone with a laptop is to design and apply better data visualization tools. The source of all … [Read more]
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]
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