A meeting of key
government and civil society stakeholders was held on Friday 9th
September 2017 in the form of a one-day national consultation on a Draft
Protected Areas System Plan.
The meeting
sought to engage stakeholders in discussion of preliminary recommendations for
harmonizing existing protected area sites with proposed sites, in order to
develop the most feasible network of sites based on the criteria of
representation, redundancy, resilience and realism. The Minister of Agriculture, Land and
Fisheries, Senator the Hon. Clarence Rambharat addressed the consultation,
which was held at the PETROTRIN Staff Club, Pointe-à-Pierre.
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| Dr. Howard Nelson, consultant |
The development
of the draft Plan was undertaken by Dr. Howard Nelson, a consultant to the “Improving Forest and Protected Area
Management in Trinidad and Tobago” project.
This project is currently being undertaken by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UN) on behalf of the Government of the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (GORTT) over the period 2015-2019.
Learn more about the discussions which took
place at the consultation at this link.
