FAO, EMA demonstrate bird-banding project in Tobago

The Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions (FAO) and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) have demon­strat­ed how bird-band­ing and da­ta col­lec­tion are help­ing to pro­tect To­ba­go’s bio­di­ver­si­ty, with par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on the threat­ened White-tailed Sabrew­ing hum­ming­bird.

The demon­stra­tion was held on Tues­day at the Main Ridge For­est Re­serve in north­east­ern To­ba­go as part of a Unit­ed Na­tions Trinidad and To­ba­go mis­sion to mark UN Day.

About 35 rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the diplo­mat­ic corps, de­vel­op­ment agen­cies, gov­ern­ment agen­cies and the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly gath­ered at the Main Ridge Vis­i­tors’ Cen­tre for a brief­ing be­fore hik­ing to the Blue Cop­per Trail to ob­serve the trap­ping, band­ing and re­lease process.