TRINIDAD - Journalist to attend natural resources management workshop

TRINIDAD (CMC):

Twenty journalists from 16 Caribbean countries will tomorrow begin a three-day training workshop covering natural resources management and conservation.

It is being organised by the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem and Adjacent Regions (CLME) Project and the Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management in Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWCAM) Project and the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM).

The organisers said that the workshop is designed to increase the ability of regional journalists to more effectively cover issues related to Caribbean watersheds and coastal areas and shared marine ecosystems.

better coverage

One output of the exercise will be publication of guidelines to enable better coverage of natural resources management and conservation within the context of watershed and coastal areas management and shared marine ecosystems.

"I believe that this workshop provides regional journalists with an ideal opportunity to increase their knowledge of an area of urgent developmental concern to the wider Caribbean region," said ACM President, Wesley Gibbings.

CLME regional project director, Nestor Windevozel, said "the involvement of journalists in disseminating the main messages regarding the CLME pilot project and related case studies is crucial, since they can help to raise awareness amongst stakeholders of the need for a real commitment towards the good management of the shared living marine resources of the region".