Protect Seabirds in the Caribbean

We are busy planning a workshop to train local fishermen and others how to monitor and protect seabirds on islands that do not yet have advocates working in the field to protect them. You already know how important this work is, thank you for helping to make this project so successful. We must continue to protect seabirds and their eggs and chicks from being harvested, that's why we are calling on you to please donate today to expand our community of empowered and educated wildlife advocates. By donating today (Wednesday June 15), a Bonus Day, your donation can be matched. 

As one of our trainees recently posted after a survey to an island with thousands of nesting birds "what a sight to behold...beautiful." Indeed, the energy and abundance of life on these small islands can be awe inspiring. However, we musn't loose sight of the fact there there are very few of these islands left. Caribbean seabird populations are a tiny fraction of what they once were and relegated to the most remote and inhospitable islands. 

You can help to ensure that these amazing places remain for this and future generations to behold in wonder. Please donate today!

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• Donate on Bonus Day

During our first surveys of remote seabird nesting islands, we encountered many signs of seabird harvesting, such as piles of carcasses, traps, and people with buckets of eggs. So in 2014, your donations funded our first seabird monitoring effort for a remote group of islands where harvesting was a major issue.

Over the last two seasons, Wayne, from the nearby island of Grenada, has been working with fishermen during his surveys, making them more aware of the imminent danger of extinction for local seabirds. Wayne’s presence has made a huge difference for these islands. During the last two years, no evidence of harvesting was found and the eggs Wayne monitored hatched successfully. Now he is back in the field and the seabird breeding season is in full swing with more nesting birds than when he started two years ago!

We are now planning our next training workshop so we can have more advocates like Wayne, and Philman who you met in our last report. The workshop is a little over a month away but we need to reach our funding goal to make it happen. We have volunteer trainers lined up, a conference space donated, but we still need to pay for travel and lodging for the participants, many of whom are fishermen struggling to make ends meet. They are ready to take action and help the seabirds, but we need your support to make it happen.

Please consider making a contribution; your help has been so important and we would love to expand our program and reach more islands and the seabirds who call them home. Donating on GlobalGiving’s Bonus Day (June 15th), when donations can be matched, is a wonderful opportunity to have an even greater impact. I look forward to sharing more positive news with you and thank you for all you do to make this valuable work possible.