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November 2018
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Bioblitz in Toco
The Bioblitz event is a collaboration between the UWI Zoology Museum and the T&T Field Naturalists’ Club. Volunteers for the event come from many places, including staff and students from the University of the West Indies Department of Life Sciences, members of the T&T Serpentarium, and many other nature enthusiasts. Last year’s Bioblitz in the beautiful Icacos peninsula found 750 species of living beings, and included a big biodiversity public display of banners, museum specimens and live animals. A display is expected this year, too, reflecting specimens found in the Toco area. Both the teams of experts and the public displays will be based at the Toco Regional Complex, Cemetery Road, Toco. Members of the public are welcome to visit the team here on the Sunday between 7am and 2pm to discover more about Toco’s biodiversity. Here are some animals found in the Toco area, courtesy the Facebook site of the T&T Field Naturalists’ Club. For more information on this year’s Bioblitz, see their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TandTBioblitz/) or email: ttbioblitz@gmail.com. |
Biologists, UWI natural scientists, animal lovers and anyone fascinated by tropical animal and plant life will be heading to Toco later this month for the seventh T&T Bioblitz which takes place on the weekend of November 17-18. Each Bioblitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area.