Pact signed for $26M grant for management of protected areas expansion

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
From left standing: Major General (retd) Joseph Singh, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Protected Areas Trust; Executive Director of CI-Guyana Dr David Singh; Director of the Department of Environment Ndibi Schwiers; and Ben terWelle Vice Chair of the Protected Areas Trust. From left sitting: Acting Commissioner of the Protected Areas Commission Denise Fraser; CI-Guyana Technical Director Curtis Bernard; and Executive Director of the Protected Areas Trust Geeta Devi Singh.
From left standing: Major General (retd) Joseph Singh, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Protected Areas Trust; Executive Director of CI-Guyana Dr David Singh; Director of the Department of Environment Ndibi Schwiers; and Ben terWelle Vice Chair of the Protected Areas Trust. From left sitting: Acting Commissioner of the Protected Areas Commission Denise Fraser; CI-Guyana Technical Director Curtis Bernard; and Executive Director of the Protected Areas Trust Geeta Devi Singh.

Guyana’s National Protected Areas System (NPAS) is now the beneficiary of $26 million worth of grants from Conservation International-Guyana (CI), which will go towards building the capacity of the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) and the Protected Areas Trust (PAT) to effectively manage the expanding NPAS.

A joint press statement issued by the PAC, PAT and CI-Guyana, said that separate agreements were signed during the week that International Day of Forests, World Water Day and Earth Hour were celebrated, on March 23, 2017.

The pacts were signed in the boardroom of the Department of Environment, witnessed by Director of the Department Ndibi Schwiers.

The release quoted Schwiers as saying, “I think this is