Science

Culture, Science, Trinidad and Tobago

Asa Wright Nature Centre: an old house and a dream

It’s 40 years since Trinidad’s Asa Wright Nature Centre was opened at the old plantation house of Springhill, now 100 years old. To...

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Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago

The Wild Fowl Trust: oasis of the oilbelt

Our tour guide dropped her voice and stepped gingerly across the boardwalk to a mango tree by the water. Between the shiny green leaves of...

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Culture, Technology, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Dr Anil Kokaram: from the Oscars to the Oval

Digital image sequence processing may not be very glamorous, but it won an Oscar for Trinidadian engineer Dr Anil Kokaram. Kokaram, 39,...

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Environment

Eco buzz (July/August 2007)

The Caribbean: sun, sea, and…whale-watching Whale-watching may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Caribbean,...

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Environment

Eco buzz (May/June 2007)

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE Trinidad’s Northern Range stretches from Galera Point in the north-east to the Dragon’s Mouth in the north-west....

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Culture, Environment, People, Guyana

Michelle Kalamandeen: “It’s commitment that counts”

Shell Beach is amazing—ninety miles of mangrove and lowland swamp forests, seasonal palm savannahs, and nine beaches consisting entirely...

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Culture, Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago

1, 2…18,611: counting the birds

It’s 5 am on December 31, 2006. As the sky slowly brightens, you step into a pair of shorts, wrestle yourself into a t-shirt, slather...

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Environment, People, The Bahamas

Abaco’s equine heroes

Only a heart beating to the galloping of hooves could have heard their whinnies echoing across the sea from a fortress of pine trees....

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