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Every year, the Environmental Awareness Group (EAG) engages with hundreds of students and teachers across Antigua and Barbuda in various educational outreach activities. From career days, to school presentations on Redonda, the Antiguan Racer, sea turtles, and other environmental science topics, to taking the students on a Mangrove Field Trip…

By Sherrel Charles Every year, the Environmental Awareness Group (EAG) engages with hundreds of students and teachers across Antigua and Barbuda in various educational outreach activities. From career days, to school presentations on Redonda, the Antiguan Racer, sea turtles, and other environmental science topics, to taking the students on a…

The problem of global amphibian declines has prompted extensive research over the last three decades. Initially, the focus was on identifying and characterizing the extent of the problem, but more recently efforts have shifted to evidence-based research designed to identify best solutions and to improve conservation outcomes. Despite extensive accumulation of knowledge on amphibian declines, there remain knowledge gaps and disconnects between science and action that hamper our ability to advance...

Princeton University Press, 2020, 642 pages; $40 It is certainly a fitting monument to its author. Peter Vickery was one of Maine’s leading ornithologists. Although he and his wife Barbara lived in Richmond, Peter worked as an avian ecologist at Massachusetts Audubon Society (where we first became friends) for over 20 years. Nonetheless, he had put down roots in Maine, and Ralph Palmer’s classic “Maine Birds” became “his Bible,” according to Barbara. Written in 1949, it was the stan...