Photo: Dr. Gale Rigobert, St. Lucia’s Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development (left), receives the Caribbean Challenge Initiative pin from CCI Special Envoy Karolin Troubetzkoy. ST. LUCIA (February 9, 2020) – More action and funding are needed to protect the region’s coral reefs and to conserve fisheries and other marine resources, asserted […]

ANTIGUA (July 16, 2019) – France and Germany, along with The Nature Conservancy, have pledged over US$45 million in contributions to the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) to increase resources for biodiversity conservation. During last month’s CBF Annual Meeting in Antigua, Ulrike Metzger, division head of regional development policy, Central America, Caribbean and Mexico for the […]

Lead Photo: CCI Envoy Karolin Troubetzkoy (right) congratulates Josefina Gomez of Fondo MARENA in the Dominican Republic  (The National Fund for the Environment and Natural Resources) while in Antigua last week. ANTIGUA (June 27, 2019) – Five Caribbean countries and territories were recognized for their early achievement of the ambitious marine protection target they committed to when […]

From left: Eleanor Phillips, Director of External Affairs for the Caribbean for The Nature Conservancy; German Ambassador to CARICOM and Chairman of the CCI Steering Committee Holger Michael; Karolin Troubetzkoy, new Envoy for the Caribbean Challenge Initiative; and Yabanex Batista, CEO of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund. ST LUCIA (January 17, 2019) – St. Lucian hotelier […]