Videos – St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve-SKN Workshop Highlights

Video- MAB Workshop Highlight 1 VIdeo- St. Mary's Biosphere Reserve -SKN Workshop HighlightAntonio Maynard Posted by St. Kitts – Nevis National Commission for Unesco on Monday, November 12, 2018   Video-MAB Workshop Highlights 2 VIdeo 2- St. Mary's Biosphere Reserve -SKN Workshop HighlightsAntonio Maynard Posted by St. Kitts – Nevis National Commission for Unesco on …

Stakeholders pledge support to protect St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve

Stakeholders in the St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve made their contribution in a workshop on Tuesday October 30th towards the development of a management plan for the reserve. At the opening ceremony at the conference room of the Bird Rock Beach Hotel, Minister responsible for UNESCO Shawn Richards acknowledged the importance of the St Mary’s Biosphere …

St. Mary’s Biosphere Residents Make Contributions to Management Plan

The effects of increased sand mining in Keys Village to the environment, the decreasing number of sea turtles in the community and the need to create a viable tourism product in the St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve were among some of the concerns raised by residents from the area in a workshop on Tuesday October 30. …

Videos 1 & 2-UNESCO St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve Workshop Report

UNESCO  St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve Workshop Report 1 UNESCO St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve Workshop Report (1) UNESCO St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve Workshop Report 1Antonio Maynard Posted by St. Kitts – Nevis National Commission for Unesco on Wednesday, November 7, 2018     UNESCO  St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve Workshop Report 2 UNESCO St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve …

UNESCO MAB Consultant In St. Kitts and Nevis To Help Prepare Management Plan

The project to boost the brand of the St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve and create a management plan is in full effect. A UNESCO consultant is currently in St. Kitts and Nevis since the start of the week, meeting with stakeholders together with head of the St. Kitts and Nevis UNESCO Secretariat Mr. Antonio Maynard and …

Efforts underway to boost branding of St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserves

The significance of the St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve to St. Kitts and Nevis and the inhabitants of the communities forming the St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserves, will be focal points over the next few weeks in St. Kitts. Biosphere reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems promoting solutions to reconcile the conservation of biodiversity with …

St. Kitts & Nevis represented at the 6th Annual Training Course for Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserve Managers

PRESS RELEASE   Basseterre, St. Kitts – October 11th, 2018. UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province organized the 6th Training Course for Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserve Managers from October 1 to 3, 2018 in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.  The overall aim of the training course was to …

St. Kitts & Nevis raises its profile amongst UNESCO Ambassadors

    Notwithstanding being a small island developing state, St. Kitts and Nevis has again raised the profile of the Federation on the multilateral stage, as one of the 184 Member States of the specialised UN agency, UNESCO, based in Paris. At the end of September this year, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Ambassador to UNESCO, H.E. …