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Protect-Ed: Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and Tobago

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ;

Pages 8

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Category Newsletter

Series title Newsletters from the Decentralized Offices

Series number Volume 2, Issue 1 - June 2017

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This issue of the ProtectEd Newsletter provides updates on the "Improving Forest and Protected Area Management in Trinidad and Tobago" project in its second year of implementation. The issue gives perspectives on the development of a National Protected Area Systems Plan; the use of a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation (RBME) approach in the public service; trends and observations in the management of a wetland protected area and the imoact of an ecotourism thrust for environmental sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago.

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