Satellite Turtle Tagging On Saturday, February 24th, at the National Environmental Centre, the RATs team were invited to attend a turtle tagging event led by Katherine Hart (DECR environmental officer and turtle expert), Amy Avenant (DECR), Jackie Walker (leader in the Amanyara turtle initiative) and Peter Richardson [...]Continue Reading →
Kayaking Adventures On Friday, 23rd February, week 6 with our RATs team, we went out on a kayaking trip with Ms. Rankin and Don Stark (the chairman of the TC Reef Fund). The weather was beautiful (although a little windy) and the water was a bit cooler [...]Continue Reading →
RATs week 4: Coral Gardens In week four of our new Reef Action Team (RATS) team, the weather was once again beautiful enough to go out on an excursion. We were fortunate enough to be able to work with Jackie Walker, a naturalist at Amanyara resort, and [...]Continue Reading →
World Wetlands Day, February 2018 RATS Mangrove Monitoring and regeneration project. We eagerly arrived at the launch bay where Amy Avenant, from the Turks & Caicos Islands Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR), and the helpers from Surfside Academy were waiting for us with kayaks at [...]Continue Reading →
Reef Action Team 2018 So, our new RATs (Reef Action Team) are up and running for 2018! Our first session, on January 12th, saw our group of 10 head up to Rickie’s beach and spend a couple of hours using some ‘search and rescue’ techniques to do […]
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