Trinidad & Tobago turtle conservation in National Geographic

...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

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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An interview with SOS Tobago’s Tanya Clovis and Giancarlo Lalsingh | Discover T&T

Originally written for and published in Discover Trinidad & Tobago magazine in 2013 SOS Tobago is one of the islands’ most vibrant community-based conservation groups. Over two print editions, Discover interviewed some of its team members. SOS president Tanya Clovis grew up in Tobago and returned home after studying at university abroad. According to her, she was in the right …

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