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Caribbean Partners get their “mangroove” on for World Wetlands Day

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Grupo Jaragua and Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña, Inc. marked World Wetlands Day with programmes aimed at raising awareness of the value and benefits delivered by the Caribbean’s shrinking coastal mangroves.

Caribbean Seabird Tracking Pilot Study Gives Encouraging Results

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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Caribbean Seabird Tracking Pilot Study Gives Encouraging Results

Dog Island is an uninhabited offshore islet lying northwest of the Caribbean UK Overseas Territory (UKOT) of Anguilla, and is considered to be the second most important individual island for seabirds in the eastern Caribbean, despite being only about 200 ha in size.

Nesting shorebirds protected at the Cabo Rojo Salt Flats, Puerto Rico

Friday, July 6, 2012

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Nesting shorebirds protected at the Cabo Rojo Salt Flats, Puerto Rico

During May 2012, Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña, Inc. (SOPI, BirdLife in Puerto Rico) installed 25 signs in the Cabo Rojo Salt Flats National Wildlife Refuge to mark important nesting sites for resident shorebirds that were being disturbed by visitors.

Mountain Chicken’s portrait

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

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The Mountain Chicken Project, funded by the UK government’s Darwin Initiative and executed by the Department of Environment of Montserrat and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, is pleased to announce the publication of a poster and a brochure aimed at raising awareness of the Critically Endangered Mountain Chicken Leptodactylus fallax on Montserrat.

Grupo Jaragua’s first land purchase initiative saves 100 ha of threatened Caribbean forest

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

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Grupo Jaragua’s first land purchase initiative saves 100 ha of threatened Caribbean forest

Grupo Jaragua (BirdLife in the Dominican Republic) has successfully purchased a 100 ha corridor of transitional, previously unprotected and highly threatened forest within the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve.

Black-capped Petrel may warrant protection under the endangered species act

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

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A nocturnal seabird, the black-capped petrel, may warrant federal protection as a threatened or endangered species.

Science + local involvement = better conservation for mangroves

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña Inc. (SOPI, BirdLife in Puerto Rico) has been awarded funds by the Mangrove Alliance Small Grants Program (SGP) to perform the first comprehensive study of the mangrove community at Caño Tiburones.

Jamaicans set to put an economic value on a threatened mangrove site

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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The Windsor Research Centre (WRC) is implementing a project to engage the people of Jamaica in the conservation and protection of the Coral Spring-Mountain Spring Protected Area (CPMSPA) and its mangrove habitat.

Monitoring birds in Montserrat’s Centre Hills

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Forestry staff from Montserrat’s Department of Environment are currently in the field conducting the annual bird monitoring exercise to determine the bird populations in the island’s Centre Hills Important Bird Area.

Government protects critical habitat for the Grenada Dove

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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In August 2011, the Government of Grenada’s Cabinet approved the protection of the last piece of government-owned Grenada Dove habitat through the addition of approximately 100 acres (c.40 ha) of the Beausejour Estate to the adjacent Perseverance Protected Area and Dove Sanctuary.

Haiti´s inland mangroves disappear under rising waters

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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As part of a Haiti-wide mangrove survey, the Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) has undertaken visits to Trou Caïman and Lac Azuéi Important Bird Areas to search these brackish lakes for remnants of inland mangroves.

More petrels discovered in Haiti

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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The nocturnal calls of Black-capped Petrels Pterodroma hasitata have guided Haitian researchers to discover more nesting locations for this Endangered seabird.

The Caribbean wetland experience

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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This year’s World Wetlands Day (WWD) theme is “Wetlands and Tourism” and BirdLife Partners in the Caribbean are ready to be part of the experience.

Las primeras imágenes captadas de un pichón dan esperanza a un ave marina amenazada del Caribe

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Una nueva localidad de anidación para el diablotín Pterodroma hasitata ha sido descubierta en Haití a través de los esfuerzos en el campo de un grupo de colaboradores dominicanos y haitianos.