27/04/2026
Introducing...North-east Tobago!!
Our paradise, within the paradise of OTW's home, Tobago- our grounding and healing place!
Home to the Main Ridge Forest Reserve- celebrating 250 years having been established April 30th, 1776.
North-east Tobago, in recent times attained the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve designation in 2020.
Just a taste from the North-east Tobago UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Management Plan https://www.tobago-biosphere-region.com :-
"The global Man and the Biosphere Programme promotes solutions reconciling the conservation of biodiversity with its sustainable use. They are learning areas for sustainable development under diverse ecological, social, and economic contexts.
As all global Biosphere Reserves, our North-east Tobago UNESCO Biosphere Reserve has the goal to harmonise: conservation of biological and cultural diversity, with green economic development, and social improvements, and sharing our experiences through research and networking with our global partners.
Our Biosphere Reserve consists of three areas or zones:
The core zone are our legally protected areas: the Main Ridge Forest Reserve, Little Tobago, and St Giles in which human activity is strictly limited and where monitoring of conservation priorities take place.
In the buffer zone, which is between the protected areas and the villages, “soft” activities such as, ecotourism, sustainable agriculture and fishing, education and training are strongly encouraged.
The transition zone contains all villages, roads and infrastructure from Belle Garden to Charlotteville to Moriah.
North-east Tobago is Trinidad & Tobago’s most iconic conservation landscape; the area’s rare and largely intact Caribbean Island Ridge-to-Ocean landscape, its biodiversity, range of ecosystems, and special-interest species are significant on a regional and global scale.
Covering over 835 square kilometres, North-east Tobago encompasses three protected areas, one of which is the oldest protected tropical forest reserve in the world (the first Natural National Heritage Site of the country), a multitude of proposed Cultural National Heritage Sites, a planned Marine Protected Area of coral reefs and open ocean, three Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas and 15 communities which are home to approximately 10,000 residents with a rich historical and cultural heritage."
Credit to: https://www.tobago-biosphere-region.com/
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