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Vice President Karilyn Shephard with President Molly R. Gaskin KARILYN G.D SHEPHARD has long had a passion for and commitment to the natural environment. She joined Molly R. Gaskin and The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust in the early 1980’s and has worked as a volunteer for the wise management of Trinidad and Tobago’s natural environment and for the introduction of environmental education in schools, travelling all over Trinidad and Tobago with audio visual equipment and other material. Together with Trust President Molly R. Gaskin and as members of WIDECAST (Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Network) she designed and co-authored Trinidad and Tobago’s first Sea Turtle Recovery Plan, conducting weekly patrols at Matura Beach for research and tagging. She co-designed and edited amongst many other Trust’s publications, Trinidad and Tobago’s only comprehensive book on “Sea Turtles & Their Habitats, T&T and the Caribbean”, and a local comprehensive teachers’ pack on wetlands “Wonders of Wetlands”. Karilyn also co-ordinated and implemented the visit of the Greenpeace sailing vessel “Rainbow Warrior” to T&T to protest nuclear shipments through the Caribbean. From 1993- 1999, she served on the Board of CCA (Caribbean Conservation Association), our regional NGO based in Barbados and from 1999 to 2002 as Vice President of the Association. She served on the Board of Governors of the Institute of Marine Affairs and the cabinet appointed National Wetlands Committee. She co-manages The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust together with its successful breeding and release programmes for T&T’s five species of endangered waterfowl, the country’s threatened national bird, the Scarlet Ibis and its once locally extirpated, Blue and Gold Macaw. She represented The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust at numerous environmental meetings, workshop conferences and symposia at home and around the world. Together with Molly R. Gaskin, she continues her handson day to day involvement with all aspects of the Trust’s work and as part of her belief and commitment, lobbies for improved environmental policies and the wise use of T&T’s natural habitats. Karilyn Shephard, in 1991 with the first Scarlet Ibis chick bred in captivity in Trinidad and Tobago at the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust Learning Centre a gift from the Canadian Government 1983.
Another Milestone for the P-a-P Wildfowl Trust Karilyn Shephard receives The Humming Bird Gold Medal from His Excellency Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona SC ORTT, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Receiving congratulations from The Honourable Dr. Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Vice President of the PaP Wildfowl Trust Karilyn has expressed hope that her Humming Bird Medal (Gold) will bring attention to and the resolution of environmental issues, including the poaching of Scarlet Ibis in the Caroni wetlands. “The award”, she said, “was a wonderful surprise and completely unexpected”. The Trust breeds Scarlet Ibis and releases them in the wetlands. She was really upset over recent reports of Ibis poaching in the Caroni and said that not enough people are monitoring the wetlands. She and Molly, called for more game wardens. Karilyn said in their work to save The Nariva Wetlands one of their most powerful tools was the economic evaluation of the ecosystem services of the wetland. One of the challenges is getting policy makers to understand this. The Trust celebrated its 50 th anniversary in December 2016 and she describes this as a “great milestone.” Karilyn said there are young people working at the Trust, university graduates, as part of the succession planning. Photo Below: Karilyn Shephard, Molly Gaskin and the “TEAM” at the Trust
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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 and 18: Debe Secondary School Scouts The Po
Page 19 and 20: Red- Bellied Macaws (Ara manilata)
Page 21 and 22: Climate Change, Sea Level Rise affe
Page 23: Copper- Rumped Himmingbird (Amazili

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