International Programme Steering Committee meeting in Montserrat
Things are really getting back into the swing of things as we prepare for the next release which is due at the end of this month. However, before we could concentrate on our new...
New Old Frogs!!
Well for the last month I have been on holiday in England and our project Research Officer, ‘Lloydie’ and Field Assistant, ‘Blacka’ have been holding the fort in terms of fieldwork in Montserrat. July...
A new recruit
Over the last month, as promised, the project staff and forestry team have been spending plenty of time in the forest continuing our fight to save the Critically Endangered mountain chicken (remember, it’s a...
Visitor’s from afar
The beginning of June brought us a couple of welcome visitors from Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the leading project partner along with the Department of Environment. Mr Paul Masterton is the Chief Executive Director...
We’re singing in the rain…
May has definitely been the wettest month of the project so far. As we begin to move into the rainy season in Montserrat storms have been brewing, ghauts have been running and the frogs...
New Governor of Montserrat appointed
For those of you interested in island life and the workings of Montserrat as an overseas territory, we had the initiation of our new Governor, British Economist Mr Adrian Davis, this month.
His Excellency the...
Moving onwards
With the volunteers merrily on their way I wanted to give a brief summary of the progress here in Montserrat and to highlight the immense achievements of the project recognised so far. To date,...
RE-CAPPING THE RELEASE
The past four months have been epic beyond compare for the team in Montserrat: laughing, crying and sweating their way from January to May.
January saw the captive-bred critically endangered mountain chicken return to Montserrat....
FOOD FROM THE FOREST
In this blog I (Payana) am going to ignore the frogs. Yes that is right, no frogs. I am going to focus on the other things that happen in the forest at night.
I'd better...
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Local knowledge of the forest is key to us being able to work efficiently and constructivelyon Montserrat.
The Montserrat Department of Environment’s Forestry team helped us a lot when we were building the temporary ponds...