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Trinidad & Tobago turtle conservation in National Geographic

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...And Caribbean Beat Last year, one of the things I most treasured working on was a piece for National Geographic about Trinidad & Tobago's turtle conservation efforts. The fates of the islands' community-based organisations and their decades of work — some of which had become a model for similar programmes in other parts of the …

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The old girls & the sea | Caribbean Beat

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Community-based organisations have made Trinidad & Tobago the most important leatherback nesting site in the hemisphere. Caroline Taylor shares how, and why you must see these beautiful creatures up close. Published in the July/August 2022 issue of Caribbean Beat When tiny turtle hatchlings dig their way out from nests deep beneath the sand, they face …

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