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BirdLife Caribbean Program - who has written 42 posts on BirdLife Community.
Our aim is to develop a coherent, integrated Caribbean-wide bird conservation program based around empowering partners and people to protect key sites, conserve priority habitats and save threatened species. The program is actively engaged in saving globally threatened species and Important Bird Area protection in the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad. BirdLife Partners in the UK, France, the Netherlands and the US are also engaged with the program through conservation actions in the overseas territories.
República Dominicana celebró el Día Mundial de las Aves
Las aves han acompañado al hombre a lo largo de la historia. Sus cantos les han alegrado la vida, y su belleza y colorido han inspirado a pintores, escritores y poetas. Pero ese mismo hombre al que han dado tanto goce, es también su mayor peligro.
Continue reading...Festival de las Aves Endémicas del Caribe: llamado a la juventud
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Comenzó el viernes santo el Décimo Festival de las Aves Endémicas del Caribe, coordinado, como cada año, por la Sociedad para la Conservación y el Estudio de las Aves del Caribe (SCSCB), la más grande organización conservacionista de la región, cuyo objetivo es la conservación de la vida silvestre en el Caribe isleño.
Continue reading...Laguna de Oviedo becomes a living classroom during wetlands celebrations in Dominican Republic
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
On 2 February, Grupo Jaragua (BirdLife in the Dominican Republic) started their 2011 calendar of environmental festivities by celebrating World Wetlands Day
Continue reading...La Laguna de Oviedo es convertida en un aula viviente en honor a los humedales
Friday, April 1, 2011
El pasado 2 de febrero, el Grupo Jaragua (BirdLife en República Dominicana) inauguró su calendario de celebraciones ambientales con el Día Mundial de los Humedales, y para celebrar desarrolló un programa de actividades educativas en torno a la conservación y el uso sostenible de la laguna de Oviedo.
Continue reading...Trees of Life
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The name Hurricane Hole might conjure images of howling winds and crashing seas. In fact, this collection of bays on the southern shore of St. John, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a sheltered sanctuary whose crystalline waters offer safe haven for young fish.
Continue reading...Post-earthquake support started for Haiti’s environmental NGO sector
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The BirdLife Caribbean Program has secured over US$250,000 from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund to strengthen Haiti’s environmental civil society/NGO sector in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake.
Continue reading...MacArthur Foundation helps build a long-term future for Haitian biodiversity
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the BirdLife Caribbean Program’s commitment to build the capacity of Société Audubon Haïti (SAH) with a US$250,000 capacity building grant. Société Audubon Haïti (SAH) is a registered foundation that has operated in Haiti since 2003. SAH has 17 (mostly part-time or project-funded contract) staff and over 100 volunteers who work [...]
Continue reading...“Welcome to Cockpit Country”
Monday, October 11, 2010
Cockpit Country is recognized nationally and internationally as a habitat for more than 60 threatened species, making it one of the highest-ranked Important Bird Areas and Key Biodiversity Areas in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
Continue reading...Proyecto conservación de iguanas une a haitianos y dominicanos
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Por primera vez en la historia de la conservación de la isla Hispaniola, se está implementando un proyecto cuyo objetivo es salvar una pequeña población de Iguana Ricordi (especie críticamente amenazada) y su hábitat y en el que participan haitianos y dominicanos de ambos lados del tramo fronterizo entre las ciudades de Pedernales (RD) y Anse-a-Pitres (Haití).
Continue reading...Bahamas National Trust examines seabirds major nesting areas after the oil spill
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Bahamas National Trust (BirdLife in the Bahamas) began surveys of seabirds colonies in the Western and SW Bahamas – Cay Sal Bank area to measure possible oil spill impact.
Continue reading...Haiti’s fragile ecosystems facing disaster
Monday, September 13, 2010
While the eyes of the world have followed the effect of Haiti’s devastating earthquake on Port-au-Prince, an ecological disaster has been quietly unfolding elsewhere in the country. The mountainous forests of Haiti’s Massif de la Hotte region have more critically endangered species than anywhere else on earth, according to Alliance for Zero Extinction, a global [...]
Continue reading...Bird banding centre opened in Cuba
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
On July 17th, 2010, the Johann Christoph Gundlach Cuban Bird Banding Centre (CBBC) was officially opened. The CBBC is located at the Siboney-Jutic¡ Ecological Reserve (an Important Bird Area), managed by the Eastern Centre of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (BIOECO) in Santiago de Cuba. The main goals of this permanent banding centre are to study Cuban [...]
Continue reading...República Dominicana lanza una red de conservación al rescate de su biodiversidad
Monday, August 16, 2010
El Grupo Jaragua (BirdLife en República Dominicana) realizó el lanzamiento oficial del directorio de las Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves (IBAs) en República Dominicana, junto a sus colaboradores el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MIRENA) y el Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC). Dicho evento simboliza a su vez el lanzamiento de una red de rescate de su frágil y amenazada biodiversidad. Red que está conformada por las acciones y esfuerzos de conservación de múltiples organizaciones, agencias, instituciones, e individuos
Continue reading...How long will they stand?
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The destruction of the world’s mangrove forests is happening up to four times faster than the world’s land-based forests, according to a new United Nations report. A study commissioned by the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) reports that one fifth (around 35,500 square kilometers) of the world’s mangroves — forests straddling both land and sea — have been lost since 1980.
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