Ambassador Robert Kopecky says the sustainable tourism development and fisheries management project the European Union (EU) is undertaking in partnership with Iwokrama in the North Rupununi is seeing tangible results as it nears completion.
According to a press release from the EU, it is providing €300,000, representing 90%, to funding for the project which started in December 2009. The remaining 10% has been provided by the Iwokrama Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development. The project will end in June.
During an April 12-14 visit to the site with Iwokrama officials, Ambassador Kopecky, who is Head of the EU Delegation to Guyana, said he was “heartened to see tangible results of all the different programmes, which are
