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US nature tour owner writes to Jill Biden to help save Asa Wright Nature Centre Tuesday 6 April 2021 The Asa Wright Nature Centre has closed its doors in January owing to a lack of funding and the additional burdens faced by the covid19 pandemic. Photo by Roger Jacob ORNTHOLOGIST, author and US nature tour company owner Bill Murphy has taken his pleas to help save the Asa Wright Nature Centre to another level. He wrote to US first lady Dr Jill Biden for help. On January 18, the Arima-based cent...

Tour operators: Tobago will feel Asa Wright blow Wednesday 20 January 2021 Eureka Natural History Tours owner Jason Radix, second from left, leads visitors on a hike at the Main Ridge Forest Reserve. STEPHON NICHOLAS & COREY CONNELLY Tobago tour operators are fearing for the future of the tourism industry after the abrupt closure of the Asa Wright Nature Centre eco-lodge in Trinidad. In a statement on January 18, the centre announced that with the continued closure of the borders and the limit...

Asa Wright Centre – ­a crucial natural resource Monday 18 January 2021 The view from the Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNCs) verandah is world famous. The Asa Wright Nature Centre lies at the opposite end of what is traditionally considered a natural resource in TT. There are no heavy trucks belching diesel fumes, no oil-stained earth, just a stillness that seems to reach into prehistory and the calming music of the birds that are its star attraction. From its very beginnings, the centre was e...