CHaPO

We work to promote and advocate environmental research and conservation with the integral component of science literacy for all groups in Trinidad and Tobago, the wider Caribbean and beyond. OBJECTIVES To research and monitor species and/or their habitats that enhances knowledge and contributes towards conservation or policy development, incorporating citizen science when possible; To develop sustainable practices or products that will benefit native species and/or their habitats; To provide educational information on species, habitats or sustainable practices/ products to stakeholders, school children and the public via seminars, workshops, social media, handouts, posters, documentaries, articles or other mechanisms; To participate in management development and advocacy to better conserve and sustain ecosystem services, environmental resources and biodiversity; To work with developers, planners, ministries and businesses to establish practices that can benefit both the environment and humans; and To promote gender equality at all levels of socioeconomic activity in the sustainable use and conservation of species and habitats.