Current and Past Projects Current Projects
A BIRD WATCHING GUIDE TO ANGUILLA Bird-watching is now an integral component of a new Heritage Tour programme run by the ANT in collaboration with the island's tourism industry. The tours visit the new bird-watching facilities at the protected area at East End Pond. The guide will help promote the tours and help meet an existing demand as there is no bird-watching guide to Anguilla for locals or visitors. The guide will also promote the importance of Anguilla's Important Bird areas and proposed Ramsar sites and assist in their conservation. It will help provide variety within the island's tourism resources and another "selling point" for the tourism industry at a time when bird- watching is an increasing component of to eco-tourism worldwide. The guide will provide directions to many bird-watching sites on Anguilla - these are currently poor in places and may be restricting visits. It will also provide retail income through sales to the ANT. The guide will provide a new educational resource for Anguilla' schools as it speaks directly to one of the areas recently included in the Environment in Education initiative undertaken with technical and financial assistance sourced by the Anguilla National Trust. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds will play an integral role in this project. The West Indies Whistling Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project The project is designed to raise awareness about the importance of wetlands and wetland biodiversity, especially endangered birds such as the project's flagship species, the West Indian Whistling-Duck. The workshops also provide teachers with materials and activities that they can use in their classrooms and on wetland field trips. The first workshop day includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on activities from the project's book Wondrous West Indian Wetlands: Teachers Resource Book. The second day is spent visiting local wetlands learning to identify birds, the 4 mangrove species and other wetland plants, and trying out activities and conservation projects that teachers can do with their students in the field. ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION The unique and globally important biodiversity of the Anguilla is a resource that is not being managed to its full social, economic and cultural potential. Hence it is faced with a number of threats especially from the fuel of its economic machinery, "Tourism". The main purpose of the project is to develop comprehensive environmental legislation for Anguilla while at the same time providing training of local legal professionals in the drafting of environmental legislation that is as consistent as possible with regional and international environmental legal norms. This aim will be achieved by:
With their responsibility for Public Awareness & Education, the Anguilla National Trust will seek to ensure that the addresses the known gap that exists regarding the lack of appropriate and effective environmental legislation that allows easy extension of relevant MEAs. The Trust's role will be to also facilitate the raising of awareness levels of school children and young people in formal and informal settings through radio programmes, media blitz (producing posters, websites, essay competitions, art competition etc), and in school discussions on the issues with various students at the secondary level. Although the project may not directly contribute to people's livelihoods it is hoped the legislative instruments/outputs will ensure that the economic and environmental benefits are gained from conserving and protecting the natural resources and the biodiversity of Anguilla. 2005-2008 Strategic Plan The Anguilla Flora Project IGUANA PROJECT
Darwin Initiative: Capacity Building for Biodiversity Conservation in Anguilla The UK GGF Project The Sand Dunes Rehabilitation Project Publication Program |
Rat Eradication Feasibility Study on Dog Island
There’s
a hidden world on Anguilla. Join us for a two-hour bus tour.We’ll take
you on a journey into Anguilla’s ancient past, and show you some
amazing wildlife.You can even taste wild tamarind fruit, straight from
the trees. For more 
The
project will produce a bird-watching guide for Anguilla to complement
recent publications on reptiles and plants. The main aim of the guide
will be to promote the island's birdlife and a better understanding of
the habitats they depend upon. It will be a full colour guide with
photographs featuring birds and bird-watching sites on Anguilla
including its Important Bird Areas, a section on bird identification
and information on the Anguilla National Trust. The book will be aimed
at visiting birdwatchers, Anguillians and Anguilla's schools with
proceeds going to the Anguilla National Trust.
The West Indies Whistling Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project of
the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB)
is continuing its environmental education and public outreach
programs, a conservation priority for SCSCB and BirdLife
International. Thanks to funding from the US Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Shell Chemical
Yabucoa Inc., and BirdLife's UNEP-GEF grant, as well as in-kind
funding and assistance from the Anguilla National Trust, Anguilla's
teachers have joined the more than 500 people trained in Wetlands
Education. To see some photographs of the Wetlands Project, 
This
project is an ongoing effort to identify unusual plants and compile a
comprehensive list of species in Anguilla. The list is now up to 500
species thanks to a local naturalist and visiting botanist who have
been identifying and photographing wildflowers and pressing plant
specimens for deposit in museum collections. The Anguilla National
Trust has purchased an herbarium specimen case where collections will
be stored and researched by scientists and school groups alike.
The
Anguillian iguana project has received funding from the Assistant
Under-Secretary's Programme Budget scheme. The project sets out to
create a species conservation strategy and a conservation assessment
for the Anguillian Iguana. The project is due to begin in August of
this year. The Anguillian iguana is one of the five populations which
are believed to be threatened with local extinction. The Anguilla
population is the only one existing in a UK dependent Territory. The
project objectives are to: 
The
project was intended to help develop a framework for the introduction
of the requirements of the SPAW Protocol (Specially Protected Areas and
Wildlife), of the Cartagena Convention and the Convention on Biological
Diversity into Anguillian legislation with an expected outcome being
Anguilla's request for their extension by the United Kingdom. For more 
Implemented
by the Anguilla National Trust to provide Institutional Support for the
Promotion of Civic Rights and Civil Society Participation in the
Democratic Process. For more, 
The
Anguilla Sand Dune Rehabilitation Pilot Project was adminstered by the
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Natural Resources Management
Unit (OECS-NRMU) and the Government of Anguilla. It was co-ordinated by
the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, The Department of
Physical Planning and The Anguilla National trust. The Project was
funded by the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) through the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). To
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