The Conservancy's work in the Caribbean begin in 1971 with conservation initiatives in several islands. Since then, especially with the launch of the Caribbean Challenge Iniative in 2008, the Caribbea Program increasingly integrated beyond national and local projects to include regionally scaled strategies and actions. Field and regional staff often work together around the program’s core strategies of protection and restoration; ecosystem based adaptation (EBA) and climate change risk reduction; and sustainable financing for conservation. For more on our work, current thinking and products, click on “Conservation Science and Practice”
The science and conservation staff of the Caribbean Program is spread across the United States and the Caribbean. We have multiple offices within the Caribbean (Nassau, Santo Domingo, Kingston, St. Croix, San Juan, St. Georges and Coral Gables) and communicate regularly through email and Skype. Travel is a significant aspect of the job for almost all science and conservation staff. We meet semi-regularly through the projects we work on and team planning meetings. Mapped out below are the offices and the boundaries of our programmatic "geographies".
Updated March 19, 2014