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Eastern Caribbean
About Us
If it is true that all the nations and territories of the Caribbean are unique, then, in many ways, it is also true that our common country is the sea. And now, as no other time in history, protecting individual island cultures, economies and characters depends on how effectively we take up the cause of protecting our common country and the reefs, fisheries, beaches, blue holes and mangroves that are the foundation of all life in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Challenge is a regionwide effort that aims to protect the health of the Caribbean's lands and waters. It also provides an opportunity to create a model of sustainable, multi-country funding that could help solve the problem of unfunded, ineffective national parks, not just in the Caribbean, but around the world as well.
An important area for migratory birds and underwater creatures.
The Conservancy has provided funding and technical expertise to this country's park system.
Explore
Watch a slideshow about Conservancy efforts to revive degraded coral reefs.
Interview with underwater photographer, Jeff Yonover.
Updates
St. Kitts and Nevis
To protect its territorial waters and fulfill its commitments under the Caribbean Challenge, St. Kitts and Nevis, in formal partnership with the Conservancy and funded by USAID, has begun the first marine use planning process in the history of the Eastern Caribbean. Ultimately, this process will be the foundation for the design of new national marine parks to protect St. Kitts and Nevis’ marine resources and the lives and livelihoods that depend upon them.
Sandy Island Oyster Bay Marine Protected Area
One of three new marine protected areas dedicated in Grenada in July 2010 to help improve the management of the country’s marine resources. These new reserves contribute to Grenada’s Caribbean Challenge commitment to protect 20 percent of its marine and terrestrial resources by 2020. Read news story in the Jamaica Observer.
Adopt a Coral Reef
As some of the most biodiverse and wondrous places in the world, coral reefs need our immediate attention. If the present rate of destruction continues, 70% of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed by the year 2050. With your help, the Conservancy is protecting the world's coral reefs and all the corals, fish and people that depend on them. Learn more
Calling All Photo Buffs
Show us how YOU see the Caribbean. Join The Nature Conservancy's Flickr group and tag your photos with Caribbean-TNC09.
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