Project Description
Hello everyone,
I am an Associate of the Centre of Agriculture Biosciences International (CABI)
CABI has over a 100-year history in Integrated Pest Management and scientific publication and information management in the areas of agriculture and the environment. Since 2003, CABI’s Caribbean and Central American Centre (based in Trinidad) has lead the challenge of managing invasive species in the Caribbean.
We would like to seek volunteers to assist us to define how serious the mongoose problem is in Trinidad, especially to track the population post-closure of the sugar cane industry that may have inadvertently control the population. By joining the project we can get an idea of their distribution.
We are also seeking to get funding to do a formal assessment of the population and their impacts. CABI's work in another project in St. Kitts and Nevis (i.e., nest predation studies) has shown that mongoose is a major prey of bird eggs.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Cheer
Linton Arneaud
