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Arthur Ashe Institute collaborates with Wildfowl Trust Below: At UWI St Augustine, Trust Education Officer Silene Noel offers a few words of encouragement to the students who participated in the Arthur Ashe Programme. Every year, AAIUH partners with The PaP Wildfowl Trust and other NGOs to conduct programmes. research Dr. Maurice Frank, DVM: “Public Health and Disaster Management” Participants in the Programme Left: Reanna Ramkeesoon and Shamaii Gaspard, students who worked with the PaP Wildfowl Trust through the AAIUH posing with their poster designed to portray their research findings.
Red- Bellied Macaws (Ara manilata) In August <strong>2017</strong>, the PaP Wildfowl Trust Team became aware of a sound not usually heard, made by the avian residents of the Trust. Upon further investigation we all spied a pair of Red-Bellied Macaws, and we realized that the pair had come to make a home in the Moriche palms that grow at the Trust. It was soon after that, that we noted the pair was actually a family of four! An intrinsic part of the avian fauna of the Nariva Wetlands includes the endangered Blue & Gold Macaws (Ara ararauna). This species, bred at the Trust has been re-introduced into the Nariva Wetlands. The population of Red-Bellied Macaws(Ara manilata) has diminished severely over recent years. The struggle by the PaP Wildfowl Trust to save the viability and the ecosystem services of this valuable coastal wetland together with the community of smallscale rice-farmers, fishermen and farmers included the need to conserve the high species diversity there. The Forest Act of the Government of T & T declared the Nariva Wetlands as a Protected Area in 1968. Further as a result of the persistent lobbying of the P-a-P Wildfowl Trust, the Nariva Wetlands was made our first RAMSAR site in 1993 and an Environmentally Sensitive Area in 2006 under the EMA Act.
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Page 3 and 4: Another Milestone for the P-a-P Wil
Page 5 and 6: Combating Climate Change Through Ar
Page 7 and 8: Feedback from Teachers “The Impor
Page 9 and 10: P-a-P Wildfowl Trust Back in Tobago
Page 11 and 12: Canadian High Commissioner visits t
Page 13 and 14: BIOBLITZ with UWI Biological Societ
Page 15 and 16: World Environment Day 2017 “Conne
Page 17: Debe Secondary School Scouts The Po
Page 21 and 22: Climate Change, Sea Level Rise affe
Page 23: Copper- Rumped Himmingbird (Amazili

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