Launch of Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) National Data Profile

IBAT Country Profiles will be launched at CBD COP13 in Cancun, Mexico on 8^th December. We are pleased to share an IBAT Profile for Trinidad and Tobago 

The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) delivers comprehensively validated global data on biodiversity to business, the finance sector and to non-commercial users. IBAT Country Profiles are a new development, designed to assist Parties to the CBD with national reporting and conservation planning. The tool is developed by UNEP-WCMC, IUCN, Conservation International and BirdLife International.

Non-commercial users can download an up-to-date report of nationally-disaggregated spatial data that originate from these global data sets: Protected Planet®, Key Biodiversity Areas, and The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The data is updated every six months and may be used to supplement national data sets.

See IBAT Country Profiles here. (Please note that registration is required on this site). 

Consultancy Available for Livelihood Assessment Activity

Improving Forest and Protected Area Management Project

- Consultancy Available for Livelihood Assessment Activity

Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and Tobago (GCP/TRI/003/GFF) is a full scale project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Trinidad and Tobago through the Ministry of Planning and Development, the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).  The project’s overarching objective is to improve the sustainability of protected areas systems in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and Tobago Project (GCP/TRI/003/GFF) is advertising a consultancy to undertake a Livelihoods Assessment study in the Matura Forest and Coastal Zone Pilot Protected Area.

Please click the link below to see further details of the consultancy:

Terms of Reference – Consultancy

Applications should be submitted to Neila Bobb-Prescott, Chief Technical Advisor at Neila.BobbPrescott@fao.org.

Deadline for submission of applications is: Monday 14th November 2016.

Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and Tobago Publications

The Project Coordination Unit for the project entitled "Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and Tobago"  is happy to share with you the first issue of the project newsletter - ProtectEd. (Click here to view ProtectEd Newsletter)

We also take this opportunity to share with you our findings on farming in protected areas and the national protected areas classification system in the linked information leafs below.

(Click here to view Farms in Protected Areas Information Leaf)

(Click  here to view National Protected Areas Classification System Information Leaf)

We encourage you to read, share with others in your network and share with us your feedback on this first issue of ProtectEd.