Plan for Biodiversity Management and Sustainable Development around Turks & Caicos Ramsar Site Version 1.00 This plan is an output from the Darwin Initiative project “Developing Biodiversity Management Capacity Around the Ramsar Site in Turks & Caicos Islands”. The Darwin Initiative, which part-funded the work, is run by the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The organisations running the project were: Turks & Caicos National Trust UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum CABI Bioscience The project was undertaken under a Memorandum of Understanding between the project partner organisations and the Government of the Turks & Caicos Islands The organisations running the project were: Turks & Caicos National Trust (represented by Executive Director, Mrs Ethlyn Gibbs Williams, Turks & Caicos National Trust, PO Box 540, Butterfield Square, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, West Indies;
[email protected]; www.tcmall.tc/nationaltrust) UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum (represented by Chairman, Dr Mike Pienkowski, 102 Broadway, Peterborough PE1 4DG, UK;
[email protected]; www.ukotcf.org) CABI Bioscience (represented by Co-ordinator, Characterisation & Conservation of Biodiversity, Dr Oliver Cheesman, Ecological Applications Section, CABI Bioscience, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7TA, UK;
[email protected]; www.cabi-bioscience.org) The locally recruited and based Project Officer was Bryan “Naqqi” Manco This plan was edited by Dr Mike Pienkowski. Specialists responsible for the various taxa and