Wild Caribbean needs your financial support. The organization is urgently in need of funding to continue its critical efforts for its Antigua Iguana Conservation project at Collins-Black Ghaut and Ayer’s Creek, Antigua. We need to undertake seasonal follow-up fieldwork and outreach efforts, to continue conservation and monitoring surveys, and find any remaining Lesser Antillean Iguanas (Iguana delicatissima) to protect this critically endangered species. We need a minimum of $10,000.00.
Your contributions will support:
- Personnel salaries until the end of the year
- Stipends for volunteers
- Outreach and education
- Field surveys and wildlife monitoring
- Communications and networking
- Transportation, food and materials
- Development of project website and hosting to keep you informed of results and outcomes
Any amount helps, from a $1 to $1,000.
And if you and your friends would like to support Wild Caribbean, Inc. for the long-term, there are additional program areas that may be of interest to you, including:
Biodiversity
- Protecting native species
- Protecting habitats and ecological frameworks
- Monitoring flora, fauna and events
- Conduct original field research
- Reporting on project findings and events
- Ecological Restoration
- Reducing impacts of introduced species
Land Conservation
- Identifying and conserving remaining wild and natural landscapes
- Educating people about the value of wild places
- Acquiring property for long-term protection/creating land trusts for conservation
Training, Education and Outreach
- Training local experts in biodiversity conservation, monitoring and research skills
- Increasing awareness across all levels of society about the value of the natural environment
- Creating greater partnerships, networks and platform potentials for collaborative efforts and outcomes
- Supporting local talent
Culture and People
- Increasing the awareness and understanding about the intersections and interplay between culture, ways, habits, history, the landscape and shaping of the region’s peoples, and the value of biocultural resources
- Helping to raise the profile of efforts to conserve the region’s cultural heritage, including developing digital information libraries and capacities
- Support regional and local heritage research and conservation
Media
Creating media spaces and opportunities to give voice to conservationists, activists and events, to allow greater awareness, support and involvement
Who And What Is Wild Caribbean
Wild Caribbean (WC) is an advocacy group for the promotion of the Caribbean’s ecosphere as a unique and precious gift in need of both individual and collective care, and that it is our responsibility as citizens to ensure its sustainability. Wild Caribbean promotes the philosophy that wild landscapes and species have their place in development planning, lives, and the aspirations of its people. We recognize the unique blend and amalgamation of ethnicities, history, culture, landscapes and natural processes have created the very special place we so dearly love, and we strive to leave it in a better state and more careful hands than we found it.
The overall aim of Wild Caribbean is:
To conserve the Caribbean’s native biodiversity, landscapes, ecosystems, and cultural heritage, protect the natural environment, promote sustainable livelihoods and development, and provide hope for an ecologically viable future
Wild Caribbean is a tax exempt under Internal 501(c)(3). You may make a charitable donation to the organization under IRC Section 170, and tax deductible contributions, bequests, transfers and gifts under Section 2055, 2106, and 2522. Our Employer ID No. is 88-3621111.
