Life is a careful balance between a whim and a plan, and somewhere along that spectrum we decided to hop across to neighbouring Guyana for a week last December. I’ve been working on a still unpublicised project, the details of which shall be revealed in due course. For this project, I have a few photographic targets, some of which are much easier to encounter in Guyana than in my home island. Admittedly, a wave of laziness was involved, but also I felt distinctly more comfort

I just came off an interview with WESN about my latest tribute to the Main Ridge Forest Reserve, during which I was asked about the various birding sites on Tobago, and the threats faced by the flora and fauna of the island. That got me going on the disproportionate effects of climate change – the well-known phenomenon of small-island states like Tobago bearing the brunt of warming seas and irregular weather despite not being a major contributor to the carbon emissions that a

Today, we celebrate 250 years of the Main Ridge Forest Reserve. 13 April 1776 marked the end of an eleven-year battle to preserve Tobago’s thickly forested spine, thus cementing in history one of the earliest acts of the ecologically sensible. The deed was done not for the glorious biodiversity within — but for the ridge’s role as a watershed. While it was valued for the water it provided to the surrounding estates, we now understand the contribution of Main Ridge to far exce