Kairi wild | Offtrack
Trinidad may be an industrial powerhouse, but it’s also home to wildnerness areas with a rich biodiversity, from forested mountains to mangrove wetlands. Photographers Jason Audain and Brendan Delzin share images and stories capturing the island’s wild beauty
Saved by microbes | Discover
Trinidadian microbiologist Adesh Ramsubhag is a pioneer in researching potentially revolutionary uses of the Caribbean’s native microorganisms, writes Raymond Ramcharitar
Born blue: Suriname’s blue poison dart frog
Native to the rainforest of southern Suriname, the blue poison dart frog — also called okopipi in the indigenous Trio language — earns...
The view from Simla
In the high forest of Trinidad’s Northern Range at Guanapo sits a house which has changed little since it was built many decades ago. Its...
Jungle fever: discover Iwokrama
A gift to the world In Guyana, the natural world overwhelms. It is unimaginably vast, the rainforest in many places unbroken as far as the...
Sexy orange & purple petrea
I had never seen a live coral snake. But certainly I had read about them and been warned as a child never to pick up a snake that “looked...
Green goodies from Guyana
Did you know that cocoa is twice as rich in antioxidants as a glass of red wine, up to three times richer than a cup of green tea and up to...
Bookshelf (Spring 1994)
TRAVEL AND ENVIRONMENT The 1994 issue of the Caribbean Islands Handbook (ed. Ben Box and Sarah Cameron, Trade & Travel Publications in...
