Green Traveler Guides

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

| An Eco Short List | The eastern Caribbean island of Barbados loves its afternoon tea and cricket matches, just like London. But it also boasts eco wonders that Hyde Park can never match, from its stunning beaches to its diverse marine life and dense tropical […] Barbados: 5 natural wonders to visit on this paradise isle is a post from: Green Traveler Guides. Barbados Caribbean Oceania Barbados best green attractions Barbados eco tourism

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Eco Chic

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The SeaU Guesthouse in Bathsheba, Barbados fulfills all those authentic getaway desires. I was in Barbados to really relax; though I travel often, it is usually not ‘time off’ but doing-seeing as much as possible so that I can write about it for magazines and websites. The east coast of Barbados is tropical relaxing at its best; not overdeveloped, not touristy, and definitely off-the-beaten-path, which makes it ideal for a real getaway (more on Barbados here).

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Green Traveler Guides

DECEMBER 3, 2013

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2019

Corey will be enjoying sunshine and hopefully the one endemic species to be found on Barbados as he enjoys a short vacation with his family. Easter weekend carries deep spiritual significance for many around the world, but Sunday also symbolizes the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. With blossoms blooming and birds zooming, Easter has something to offer for everyone.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2019

Corey is loving the sun and sand and rum and birds in Barbados. But his best of the weekend was easily a bird that he was amazed he could see in Barbados, the long-staying Eurasian Spoonbill that he spotted in its usual hangout, a private impoundment on Congo Road.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Guadeloupe, Martinique and Barbados continue to operate “shooting swamps” some of which are artificial wetlands created to attract migrant shorebirds for sport shooting during fall migration. Barbados, once a British colony is now an independent state and also not party to the Treaty. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Number 7 – Barbados Bullfinch. Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds! There is only one endemic species in Barbados, the Barbados Bullfinch , and they are unmissable.

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Green (Living) Review

JULY 25, 2014

As reported by the Texas Tribune, a 4.4-megawatt South Texas solar farm operated by OCI Solar Power is now the grazing grounds of about 90 hardworking Barbados Cross sheep (appearance-wise, these hair goats aren’t your stereotypical fluffy white bleat machines). At a small San Antonio solar facility, the ovine groundskeeping crew keep things trim and tidy with the aid of split upper lips and 4-chambered stomachs.

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Celsias

MARCH 6, 2013

This has led to a realization that increased production of biofuels must take place on so-called “marginal land,” acreage not suitable for growing food crops, but capable of growing switch grass, Indian beech trees and Barbados Amid efforts to expand production of biofuels, scientists are reporting new estimates that downgrade the amount of additional land available for growing fuel crops by almost 80 percent.

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Celsias

MAY 16, 2012

The Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Small Island Developing States Conference concluded yesterday with the adoption of the “Barbados Declaration” calling for universal access to modern and affordable renewable energy services, while protecting environment, ending poverty and creating new opportunities for economic growth.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

Or How a Serbian Suave Playboy Promoted Birding the Caribbean. Oh, the joys of slipping through the pages of a new book that has just arrived, the Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle and Sharpe. I am checking the References and one name, expectedly, stands out: Bond, J. Is it even possible to bird the Caribbean without the feeling that James Bond birds over your shoulder, telling you: That may be an incorrect ID, recheck that one?

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Eccorazzi

MARCH 18, 2011

Facing the Atlantic is currently sponsoring the Atlantic Woodvale race, as James Cash and actor Bertie Portal attempt to row a two-man boat from the Canary Islands to Barbados. “True Blood&# star Stephen Moyer may play a vampire on TV, but in real life he has something new to sink his fangs into: charity.

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Green Earth Journey

JUNE 11, 2009

The smallest snake, Leptotyphlops carlae, from Barbados) Copyright S. Blair Hedges Name: Leptotyphlops carlae Common Name: Barbados Threadsnake Family: Leptotyphlopidae How did it make the Top 10: This is the world's smallest snake with a total length of 104mm (4.1 Each year the IISE announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year. The Top 10 New Species described in 2008, are listed below with links to additional details about each species.

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Green (Living) Review

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Both Barbados and Qatar, on the other hand, have overtaken the UK, ranking 17 and 19 respectively. and is, along with the UK, far below the standard Transparency International labels "very clean" In comparison, Qatar and Barbados have undoubtedly cleaned up their acts. We seem to be learning from the Afghans for sure and not just in the field of corruption and the taking of bribes.

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Eco Chic

MAY 4, 2012

Starre Vartan happily hammocking at SeaU Guest House in Barbados. Photo: Simon Apter The fact that I am writing this post from an actual hammock should demonstrate to you my dedication to the art and craft of hammocking (yes, it’s a verb, at least in my world – as it should be).

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Eco Chic

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Non-raw honey (most of what you find on supermarket shelves) is just heated up to prevent crystallization, which can kill those good enzymes, but that’s still not very processed, compared to what happens with sugar, which goes through many, many stages on the journey from pretty green sugarcane growing in, say, Barbados, to the sugar you sprinkle in your tea.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Anderson River Park Never Disappoints Barbados The Other Antigua About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

MARCH 28, 2016

In 2011, after they were grounded by a tropical storm, 2,000 American Golden Plover were shot by sport hunters in Barbados. In 2011, two whimbrels that were part of a migration tracking study were shot as they made landfall on the island of Guadeloupe during their south-bound migration. The researchers had named these satellite-tagged whimbrels Machi and Goshen, and news of their death shocked birders and conservationists worldwide.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JULY 28, 2013

The New York Times featured an article on Sunday about a promising new biodiesel source called Jatropha curcas or Barbados Nut – a weed that is currently used to shield food crops from animals in Northern Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. The plant seems ideal for both farmers and the environment: it is accustomed to dry conditions and is poisonous to pests, thus eliminating the need for complicated irrigation or dangerous, expensive pesticide use.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 22, 2013

An entire species of small snakes exists, with the tiniest one being recently found in Barbados. I had no idea snakes came in any form other than the typical sizes of big and bigger. That is, until I heard of snakes that are mere centimeters long. These tiny creatures are known under the family category of Leptotyphlopidae. They are commonly known, if you know about them at all, as thread snakes or slender blind snakes. They are 30 centimeters or less in length.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2019

April was a busy time for the beats with 10 of them contributing 164 lists to accumulate 744 species from 7 countries; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Serbia, UK, Brazil and Barbados. It’s official. It’s spring. By all measures, meteorological, astronomical and anatomical, spring is sprung. The meteorological date is from March 1st, the Vernal Equinox was passed on March 20th which accounts for the astronomical marker when the sun crosses the equator on its northwards ramble.

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Eco Friendly Daily

MARCH 28, 2013

Speaking for the Aosis, Selwin Hart from Barbados, stated: “We put forward our mandate for a new legal agreement today to get things moving quickly in an effort to respond to the urgency of our challenge. Prior to the opening of the climate summit in Durban, South Africa, many nations were already arguing over the timing and details of a legal agreement. So it comes as no surprise that the gap between nations has not lessened within the last four days of the summit.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2019

BB-Barbados-Highway 3 (13.1989,-59.5042). Rendezvous Road, Bridgetown BB-Barbados (13.0862,-59.5779). Rendezvous Road, Bridgetown BB-Barbados (13.0862,-59.5779). Barbados Bullfinch – Loxigilla barbadensis. Rendezvous Road, Bridgetown BB-Barbados (13.0862,-59.5779). BB-Barbados-Tom Adams Highway (13.0809,-59.5118). BB-Barbados-Tom Adams Highway (13.0809,-59.5118). BB-Barbados-Tom Adams Highway (13.0809,-59.5118). So that was May.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. They came home exhausted.

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Green Blog

MAY 1, 2010

The Cuban vice president and the prime ministers of Antigua and Barbados were present. President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. Photo by Simon Wedege. Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this year called for an international conference to deal with the structural causes of climate change and to propose “alternative models&# for humans to live in harmony with the natural world.

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Green Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

“Australia is committed to a greedy and inhumane course of climate exceptionalism, climate racism and climate injustice.&#. We all know that we have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and eventually reach zero emissions.

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Green Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2011

At the 2011 Durban Climate Conference the US, with the help of its climate criminal lackeys Australia and Canada, again succeeded in preventing requisite international climate change action. It was reported that Island States had again pleaded with other representatives to avert “ climate genocide ” but their pleas fell on deaf ears at Durban, as at Cancun, as at Copenhagen.

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Green Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Fossil fuel burning yielding the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major component of man-made global warming. In relation to carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, Net Carbon Debt is equal to the Historical Carbon Debt (from fossil fuel burning since the start of the Industrial Revolution in circa 1750) minus the Carbon Credit (the residual carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning permitted between now and zero emissions in 2050).

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The Green Changemakers

MARCH 26, 2012

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