Conservation
The Buccoo Reef Trust is promoting conservation concepts through:
- Integrated Watershed and Coastal Area Management - This project, funded by the Global Environment Fund, aims to strengthen the commitment and capacity of the participating countries to implement an integrated approach to the management of watersheds and coastal areas. There are thirteen Caribbean Sea countries participating and the Trinidad and Tobago project is one of nine demonstration projects. It is the only IWCAM project being executed by an NGO and is being done in collaboration with the Tobago House of Assembly.
- Coastal and Marine Management and Education in the South Eastern Caribbean - Funded by the United Nations Foundation, this project is a collaboration between The Buccoo Reef Trust and the International Coral Reef Action Network. The project's aim is to strengthen coral reef management, monitoring, outreach and education programmes throughout the Southern Caribbean.
- Installation of mooring buoys and reef demarcation buoys to protect Tobago's coral reefs.
- Aquaculture for the production of food and in support of habitat restoration.
- A campaign to promote sustainable seafood through a better understanding of how different species respond to fishing pressure.
- Video production and documentary films that show the consequence of human behaviour in both compromising and conserving the marine environment.
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Topographical map of Tobago showing watersheds Mooring buoys for visitors to Buccoo Reef
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Promoting sustainable seafood Video documentation of the Trust's activities
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Sea, Sun & Science students 'liming' in the Nylon Pool Reef demarcation buoys protecting Tobago's reefs
