Meet the Love BUV: A Caribbean Car
At the ripe old age of 40, American industrialist Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company and made enough money to bathe in by swamping...
Global Warming and the Caribbean
For the Caribbean, there was much at stake when the Earth Summit — the United Nations Conference on Environment and...
Is There Anyone Out There?
Hidden among the karst mountains of north-western Puerto Rico, where the chirping of coqui frogs fill the moist night air and stars shine...
Safe Haven: Trinidad’s Wildfowl Trust and Nariva Swamp
It must be the most original setting for a nature centre in the entire Caribbean, if not in the world. The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust...
Going for the Birds
Until last December there were 431 recorded species of birds in Trinidad and Tobago, an extraordinary range for such small islands. Then,...
The Bellairs Research Institute: Finding the Answers
It is late at night. Savage waves pound the shoreline of Barbados’s rugged Atlantic coast. Emerging from the turbulence, a l80-pound...
Turtle Watching in the Caribbean: Out of the Deep
Merle Gunby watches as one of the earth’s oldest and strangest creatures – the Leatherback turtle – carries out her nesting...
In Search of the Tufted Coquette in Trinidad & Tobago
More than 430 bird species have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago, over 170 in the Arima Valley alone, site of the famous Asa Wright...
