The 10th Issue of the Caribbean Gateway Insights Newsletter has been Released

In this official newsletter of the Caribbean Protected Areas Gateway (CPAG), we discuss new protected areas in the Caribbean, efforts towards achieving the targets of the new Global Biodiversity Framework, biodiversity initiatives being undertaken in our participating countries and upcoming tools and activities by the CPAG to assist in the effective management of biodiversity, protected and conserved areas in the region.

CPAG on the move! 

Over the last few months, the CPAG has made its way to a number of participating countries, collecting data, conducting workshops and engaging with stakeholders to promote environmental tools.

CPAG kicked off its 2023 country mission series to promote the tools created for environmental and biodiversity management. The tour began in March and is set to end in June, with visits to Grenada, St Vincent, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, Belize, and Trinidad and Tobago.

We’ve done a lot this year, in addition to our engagements on the ground. We’ve added a ton of features to our platform, from a new dashboard to the ability to create maps. We also relaunched our website, and we’re about to come out with some cool new tools targeted at Protected Area (PA) managers.

As our world continues to change, so does the data we use to understand our environment and species. We are also aware that many data gaps still exist regarding the data and information available pertaining to biodiversity and protected and conserved areas within countries.

The CPAG is proud to announce that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)has been signed by the UWI Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (UWI-CERMES) and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)to strengthen and enhance the quality of the Caribbean datasets in the World Database on Protected areas (WDPA), World Database on Other effective Area-Based Conservation measures (WD-OECM) and Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME) datasets and the analysis, sharing and dissemination of this data.