Culture, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By James Fuller ● Issue 87 (September/October 2007)
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...
Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 87 (September/October 2007)
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...
Culture, Technology, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sonja Sinaswee ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
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,...
By Caroline Taylor and Tracy Assing ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
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,...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
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....
Culture, Environment, People, Guyana
By Caroline Taylor ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
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...
Culture, Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Robert Clarke ● Issue 82 (November/December 2006)
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...
Environment, People, The Bahamas
By Sabrina Vailloo ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
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....