Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2017 (#28)

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eco escapes Nowhere else in the Caribbean is like Trinidad. That’s not hyperbole — the island’s unique environment combines a South American continental legacy with Caribbean island features. Tropical rainforest cloaks the north, central, and southern mountain ranges, from which waterfalls and rivers cascade. There are brackish mangrove swamps; sprawling savannahs; and coasts that meet four distinct bodies of water. Coral reefs are found off the northwest and northeast coasts, and have produced the arid islands off Chaguaramas. With a dizzying degree of biodiversity per square mile, thousands of species call these habitats home. They include: n Amphibians: 30+ species n Birds: 400+ species (more than any other Caribbean island) n Butterflies: 600+ species n Fish: 400+ marine species and 40+ freshwater species n Flowers: 2,100+ flowering plant species (almost 200 orchids) n Mammals: 100+ recorded species (over 60 of them bats) n Reptiles: 90+ species (including 40+ species of snake and 5 marine turtle species, among them the endangered giant leatherback) n Trees: 370 species of trees (including native purpleheart, mora, and crappo). stephen broadbridge Closeup of mushrooms growing in the forest 46 discovertnt.com
& adventures Here, we’ll tell you how you can discover them. Kevin Sammy Giant leatherback turtle nesting Turtle-watching Each year between March and September (sometimes longer), you can see turtles nesting across the region. But Trinidad’s Grande Rivière serves as the second largest nesting site in the world for the ancient and endangered leatherbacks. Green and hawksbill turtles also come up along the north and east coasts; Matura is another critical site. The turtles, their eggs, and their hatchlings are all vulnerable and legally protected. From the sea, to the sea Nesting females return to the shores on which they were born each year, assiduously digging their nests before laying their eggs, camouflaging the area, and returning to the open sea. Six to eight weeks later, the hatchlings emerge and scamper through the sand to the shoreline. The females that survive to maturity will make the long trek back, to begin the cycle anew. Though they come ashore in greatest numbers late at night — and especially during the full moon — they also come ashore in the day, even at popular beaches. Help save the turtles Turtles face a number of threats — illegal poaching, natural predators, indiscriminate fishing nets, sargassum seaweed, plastics and litter, and disorienting artificial light (they follow the light of the moon). Contact the Turtle Village Trust (turtlevillagetrust.org, 271-3040/667-8471), an umbrella body for the islands’ leading turtle conservation groups — Nature Seekers; the Grande Rivière Nature Tour Guide Association; the Matura to Matelot (M2M) Network; the Fishing Pond Turtle Conservation Group; and SOS (Save our Sea Turtles Tobago). You can donate to their efforts, or adopt a turtle. discovertnt.com Responsible turtle-watching Tour operators (and some hotels) can arrange necessary permits and access. They’ll surely tell you: n to be quiet, and not to touch or disturb nesting turtles or hatchlings in any way n not to use lights (including flash photography), and not to drive on nesting beaches — the weight of the vehicle can crush eggs buried in the sand. 47
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