Have Tobago’s corals survived mass bleaching?
Via Rockethub, Salome Buglass provides information about her university research project, which is searching for the answer to this critical question. In the late summer of 2010 Tobago’s reefs suffered...
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Barbados government planning to award offshore oil exploration licences
The government of Barbados has announced its attention to award offshore oil exploration licences to BHP Billiton: Barbados will soon be awarding offshore oil drilling licences to energy firm BHP...
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UN warns that over 1 million people in Haiti are threatened by food...
The United Nations has warned that natural disasters continue to exacerbate food insecurity in Haiti: The United Nations food relief agency today warned that more than 1.5 million Haitians could remain...
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New project to improve Caribbean cocoa production
Scientists from the University of Greenwich, in cooperation with the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the Jamaica Cocoa Board will be carrying out research on ways to increase cocoa production in...
View ArticleVideo: Building the future we want – the Caribbean Challenge initiative in...
The video highlights activities of UNEP’s Caribbean Environment Programme, funded by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to support the...
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Weekend photos: peacock flounders
Peacock flounders The peacock flounder changes its color and the pattern on its skin to exactly match the sea floor. One of the eyes recognizes the pattern of its surroundings. If this eye is covered...
View ArticleEconomic impact assessment of recreational fishing in the Caribbean
Recreational fisheries are prevalent in most Caribbean islands, though to date, the socio-economic characteristics of this sector are poorly studied. World Fishing and Aquaculture comments on a Manual...
View ArticleWorld Ocean Assessment workshop for the Caribbean
On November 13-15, a World Ocean Assessment Workshop was held for the Wider Caribbean in Miami, Florida. The Workshop for the Wider Caribbean is part of the larger Regular Process, an effort to...
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Green Antilles interview: Salome Buglass, Masters student at UBC, asks Have...
Salome getting ready for a dive in Tobago It is my joy to present the second Green Antilles interview. Salome Buglass is a Master’s student at the University of British Columbia. She spoke to Green...
View ArticleCan the Caribbean survive climate induced impacts?
The UN Climate Change Conference 2012 is being held in Quatar this week. Caribbean 360 reports on concerns of survivability for Caribbean islands in the face of rising sea temperatures and levels: The...
View ArticleLike Green Antilles on Facebook
Posting here at the Green Antilles blog is on hiatus right now, but you can still get green news from, for and about the Caribbean at the Green Antilles Facebook page:...
View ArticleBetty Petersen Conservation Fund awards grants to help conserve endangered...
BirdsCaribbean has announced the first three recipients of grants from the Betty Petersen Conservation Fund. The selected projects, which all focus on conserving endangered birds endemic to the...
View ArticleGreen turtles have made a comeback in the Cayman Islands due to...
Science Daily reports on the success of a programme to reintroduce the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) to the Cayman Islands: During the eighties, overexploitation of the green turtle in the Cayman...
View ArticleThe disappearance of insects from Puerto Rico’s rainforests is a...
The UK Guardian reports on the collapse of insect populations in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest. Plummeting insect populations, in Puerto Rico and other parts of the world, have been attributed to...
View ArticleBeneath the Waves and shark conservation in The Bahamas
Marine biologist Melissa Cristina Márquez writes about shark conservation organisation Beneath the Waves and the research they are doing in The Bahamas. According to Dr. Austin Gallagher, the...
View ArticleCaribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism launches study on sargassum impacts in...
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) has launched a study to document the impacts of the recurring influxes of sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean Sea: Over the past 7 years, massive...
View ArticleGovernment of Antigua and Barbuda signs ocean energy MoU
Media release — Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda. Through a feasibility study, facilitated by the United...
View ArticleStony coral tissue loss disease spreads through the northern Caribbean
In recent weeks both St. Maarten and the US Virgin Islands have reported cases of stony coral tissue loss disease. The first incidence of stony coral tissue loss disease was recorded in 2014 in...
View ArticleGuyana to ban single-use plastics by 2021
The government of Guyana has confirmed its intention to implement a systematic ban on single-use plastics by 2021: Minister of State, Joseph Harmon … said “the work has already begun on sensitising our...
View ArticleResearch finds that in the Caribbean, overseas territories are more...
According to a new study, independent Caribbean island countries tend to be less vulnerable to coral bleaching than overseas territories: “We were surprised to find that independent islands have lower...
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