2016 - Newsletter
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The Trust in the 1980s…<br />
1981: The Trust’s first incubator donated by the<br />
New York Zoological Society. Breeding program of<br />
locally endangered waterfowl.<br />
Above 1983: Crates containing birds donated<br />
by Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust, U.K. being loaded<br />
into a station wagon at Piarco Airport, for the last<br />
leg of their ‘flight’ to the Trust.<br />
Left: Molly R. Gaskin, Karilyn Shephard and<br />
Wardens from Wildlife, Forestry trapping wetland<br />
birds to re-stock lakes at Pointe-a-Pierre.<br />
Above 1983: Our ‘Sole’ helper, Bacoo<br />
1984: The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust initiated outof-classroom<br />
Environmental Education at the Trust for<br />
school children, scouts and guides. These sessions<br />
included field work, audio-visuals and interactive<br />
programmes.<br />
Trust Learning Centre donated by the Canadian<br />
Government through the Canadian High Commission in<br />
Trinidad. Assembled and erected in 10 days with the<br />
assistance of the manufacturer’s representative from<br />
Canada and Texaco craftsmen.
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