On Thursday 3rd December 2015,
the Ministry of Planning and Development and the Tobago House of Assembly (THA)
in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO/UN) hosted the second Inception
Workshop for the Global Environment Facility funded project entitled
"Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and
Tobago" at the Works Lecture Room in Shaw Park, Tobago.
Assemblyman Godwin
Adams, the Secretary of Agriculture, Marine Affairs, Marketing and the
Environment delivered the feature address on behalf of the Chief Secretary of
the Tobago House of Assembly (THA). In
his remarks he described how the project compliments the THA’s actions in
forest and protected area management and revealed plans for a large scale
reforestation project on the island. Participants
at the workshop included representatives from Divisions of the THA and other
key stakeholders in forest and protected area management on the island.
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Ms. Nevlin
Renwick,
Administrator,
Agriculture,Marine Affairs, Marketing and the Environment delivering
opening remarks.
Seated at
centre is Assemblyman Godwin Adams, Secretary,
Agriculture,Marine Affairs, Marketing and the Environment. To his left is Mr. William Trim and Mr.
Selwyn Davis from
the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment,
THA
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As with the first
Inception workshop in Trinidad, this workshop afforded participants the
opportunity to review the draft work plans for each pilot protected area and to
input into proposed actions and mechanisms to achieving the project's
objectives. Work plans for all the six
pilot protected areas were presented with a more detailed focus on the pilot sites
in Tobago, namely the Main Ridge Forest Reserve and the proposed North East
Tobago marine protected area.
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