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F O U N D A T I O N
The Year That Showed Us
The Other Side of Paradise
"Inhabitants of the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf
Coast and the Caribbean, beware: this hurricane sea
son is shaping up as one of the most active in the last
two decades. " So cautioned an article in the New York
Times in late June of this year. Five months later,
after what would go down in the record books as the
second most active season ever, this early warning
from weather experts proved to be all too chillingly
accurate.
A combination of atmospheric and oceanic forces
made the 1995 crop of tropical storms and hurricanes
more frequent and intense than they have averaged
since the beginning of this century. Whatever the rea
son, the residents of the Caribbean — particularly the
northeastern Caribbean — have cause enough to re
member the 1995 hurricane season, after taking a bat
tering from three successive major storms — Iris, Luis
and Marilyn — during a three week period in late
August to mid September. Hardest hit were the is
lands of St. Thomas, Antigua and Dutch St. Maarten.
Island Resources Foundation maintains facilities in
two of the three islands.
The Foundation's offices in Antigua and St.
Thomas sustained damage to equipment and losses in
the library collection. Overall, however, our physical
damage and injury were less severe than the massive
destruction apparent throughout Antigua following
hurricane Luis and St. Thomas following hurricane
Marilyn. For this, the Foundation is very thankful.
In the initial weeks following the storms, both
offices functioned on generator power, and while
electricity and intermittent telephone service were re
stored to the Foundation's offices by mid-November,
in St. Thomas three-quarters of the island's telephones
were still not in service and only about a quarter of the
island had electricity. Full telephone service in St.
Thomas is not expected until March of next year; full
electrical capacity is not anticipated until early 1996.
The statistics can be overwhelming. As reported
in a recent issue of Caribbean Week, the Government
of the U.S. Virgin Islands estimates storm-related
damage at US$3 billion. Hundreds of people (out of a
total population in St. Thomas of less than 50,000)
remain homeless, months after the storm. Over 2.7
million square feet of blue plastic roof sheeting cover
some 3,600 buildings and homes in St. Thomas. Only
a few smaller cruise ships have returned to Charlotte
Amalie, the once bustling hub of Caribbean cruise ship
traffic, and many of the island's largest resort hotels
do not expect to reopen until the spring of 1996, with
devastating consequences for this tourism-driven econ
omy.
And what of the natural environment? IRF Re
search Associate, Dr. Caroline Rogers (Research Di
rector for the National Biological Service stationed at
the V.I. National Park in St. John) reports that she and
colleagues found coral colonies at Lameshur Bay
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HURRICANES (continued from page 1)
on the south side of the island smashed and overturned to depths of
almost 50 feet after Marilyn. Park scientists estimate that the amount
of living coral at this site had not yet returned to pre-hurricane Hugo
(1989) levels when Marilyn struck. And because corals grow very
slowly, it will probably take several decades for this reef to recover.
Additionally, Rogers noted that in areas like Leinster Bay where boats
broke loose and went up on shore, more damage was caused by the
boats than by the storm itself.
Following Hurricane Hugo, a fierce Category 4 storm which
roared through the Eastern Caribbean in 1989, Island Resources
Foundation carried out an assessment of coastal environmental dam
age in the U.S. Virgin Islands. As part of the government's post-
Hugo recovery strategy, the Foundation evaluated over 50 hurricane-
damaged coastal sites and designed monitoring and impact mitigation
plans for sites identified as "priority" areas. A territory-wide plan for
further reducing damage in future natural disasters through public-
sector acquisition of hazard-prone and environmentally sensitive areas
was also developed, but never officially adopted by the Virgin Islands
Government. Thus, the lessons of Hugo had minimal effect on alter
ing the reality of Marilyn.
The early months of 1996 will be a critical period for the islands
impacted by the storms of '95. Island Resources Foundation took
tentative steps to solicit donor community support for a post-Luis and
Marilyn environmental recovery initiative in those Eastern Caribbean
islands most affected. Unfortunately, the temporary displacement of
IRF personnel following the storms and the demands of our own im
mediate site recovery left both the St. Thomas and Antigua offices
less than fully operational for many weeks after the storm.
But it is not too late to assess long-term effects and design an
intervention strategy to accelerate recovery. To this end, the Founda
tion invites donors, regional institutions, Caribbean governments and
NGOs interested in helping to design and promote such an initiative
to contact IRF's president, Dr. Edward Towle, in St. Thomas. As
Dr. Towle recently noted, "Many of the longer-term effects of the
1995 hurricanes — like Hugo in 1989 —will not be the result of the
initial storms (whether Luis or Marilyn), but of ill-advised actions
taken in the immediate response and recovery period following the
natural disaster."
A Letter To The Editor,
Virgin Islands Doily News (Oct. 28. 1995)
Some thoughts after Hurricane Marilyn.
The sudden shock as the winds from this
"little" hurricane started to tear things apart at 11
p.m. Friday night; the agonized cries for help on
VHF from boats in the harbor; four adults, three
children and a wet dog huddled in a bathroom
with mattresses as the freight train winds shook and
tore at our haven; finally collapsing on wet bed
ding in a back room for an hour until dawn; the
tentative venturing out as gray, windy light broke
through the glass and debris of our home to the
gallery looking over town, and absolute incredulity
at the massive damage visible on all sides.
Houses gone, trees twisted and downed,
poles broken, the harbor swept clean of boats,
seeing first one, then another and then another
neighbor, taking joy in our survival and comfort in
sharing the ordeal.
The Bryan clan firing up their pickup and
chain saws and clearing the road, top to bottom;
finding the propane tank in tact — hot coffeel
And breakfast for the kids; going out to find friends,
fellow workers and survey the structure of our liveli
hood — some with houses gone, some with only
water damage, but nobody hurt.... People com
ing together in small communities of common in
terest to help and share. Anger over the looting,
especially our government's failure to anticipate
and prevent it, balanced by gratitude for the
rapid and massive infusion of federal assistance;
my Daily News delivered by 6 a.m., four days after
the storm; the pleasure of watching the sudden
blossoming of leaves on naked trees, balancing
fatigue and occasionally the despair of wondering
how to put everything back together again.
The sweet and sour blessings of a generator.
... A Main Street landlord showing up on the door
step demanding his rent for October. The curse of
traffic and lines, the aftertaste of siphoned diesel
fuel; and, finally one morning, a dawn of Homeric
proportions, truly "rosy fingered," a poignant re
minder of the beauty and potential of life.
Charles Consolvo
St. Thomas
Charles Consolvo, a SI. Thomas businessman, is a member of
the Board of Trustees of Island Resources Foundation and
has served as the Foundation's legal counsel for almost 20
years.
<r The waterfront highway in Charlotte Amalie, St.
Thomas, one week after Hurricane Marilyn. Instead of taxis
and tourists, shipwrecked vessels line the waterfront's main
road. Boats tossed ashore like toys by Marilyn's 100+ mph
winds included an 82-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter, seen in the
background of this photo.
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An estimated 80%
of the buildings in
St. Thomas were
damaged in Mar-
I ilyn. Not only
windows and roofs
but entire walls
were stripped from
the structures
shown at the left,
with the end units
in the larger apart
ment complex now
totally exposed.
Enormous losses were incurred by boat ointers in the
Caribbean during the last hurricane season — in particu
lar in St. Maarten as a result of Luis and in St. Thomas as
a result of Marilyn (the vessel shown at the left is at Red
Hook in St. Thonuis). All six deaths in St. nomas and
St. John as a result of the hurricane ivere of boaters.
island resources
F O U N D A T I O N
New Biodiversity Program Associate
In the center of the photo are Kevel Lindsay
(second from the left) and Bruce Honvith from
IRF's Eastern Caribbean Biodiversity Pro
gram. They are flanked by Government of
Antigua foresters who are working ivith the
Foundation, the Environmental Awareness
Group of Antigua, and Fauna and Flora Inter
national in carrying out preliminary biodi
versity assessments of offshore islands in the
North Sound area of Antigua. Primary focus
is on Great Bird Island, habitat for the en
demic and endangered racer snake. A rat
eradication program was implemented in
December to protect the snake, as well as the
seabtrds which nest on the island.
Kevel Lindsay of Antigua was appointed in September as Program
Associate for the Foundation's Eastern Caribbean Biodiversity Program.
Mr. Lindsay began work with Island Resources four days before hurricane
Luis hit Antigua — it made for an exciting start-up to his tenure with IRF!
He joins the almost three-year-old Biodiversity Program, which is a
joint venture of the Foundation and The Nature Conservancy, with primary
funding at the present time provided by the U.S.-based Moriah Fund. Mr.
Lindsay joins Biodiversity Program Director Bruce Horwith at the Founda
tion's Antigua office, where he will share responsibility for a regional pro
gram to assist governments and non-governmental organizations in conserv
ing and protecting biodiversity by: improving available information on the
region's flora and fauna; building a broader constituency for biodiversity
conservation, and enhancing the network of protected areas in the Eastern
Caribbean.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Lindsay was with the Forestry
Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture in Antigua-Barbuda. He holds a Di
ploma in Forestry from the Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and
Forestry in Trinidad. After his return home from college in 1990, Mr.
Lindsay became an active participant of the Environmental Awareness
Group, a conservation NGO in Antigua, where he continues to serve as
an executive officer and active volunteer. He is the national represen
tative from Antigua to the Society of Caribbean Ornithology and is
well known and respected in the region. He was the 1993 recipient of
the Euan P. McFarlane Award, given annually to a young Caribbean
national who has demonstrated outstanding environmental leadership.
Although based in Antigua, Mr. Lindsay's area of focus will be a
larger group of islands in the northeastern Lesser Antilles. Primary
among these will be the island of Montserrat, where the Biodiver
sity Program has been active for several years. Montserrat has been a
focus of concern throughout the region since mid-July when loud
rumbling noises, lightly falling ash and strong sulfurous smells from
the Soufriere Hills in the south signaled unusual seismic activity and
the beginning of a volcanic emergency which continued to the end of
the year.
In August, the Government evacuated several thousand persons
from the southern part of the island to a camp in the north. By Sep
tember, the emergency appeared to be sufficiently reduced to permit
evacuees to return home, but by December 1 seismic activity intensified
once more (to the highest levels since the crisis began on July 18).
Evacuation of about 4,000 persons, including the capital of Plymouth,
was ordered, with plans moving ahead for establishment of some permanent
shelters in the north. The government has relocated for a period of up to
four weeks, and most of the island's major businesses have also established
outlets in the designated "safe" area.
Amid such uncertainty, the Biodiversity Program in Montserrat is
temporarily on hold. Earlier efforts focused on Fox's Bay, the largest and
biologically most important wetland on the island. With Kevel Lindsay's
appointment, biodiversity program initiatives in Montserrat should expand
considerably — provided, of course, the volcano cooperates!
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F O U N D A T I O N
LEADERSHIP !
For almost a decade, two of the Foundation's
most recognized and effective programs have directly
addressed the issue of leadership — both institutional
and individual leadership.
A focused assistance program for environmental
NGOs in the English-speaking Eastern Caribbean was
first established by IRF in 1986 and its formal phase
drew to a close in 1995 (of course, the Foundation
will continue to support Caribbean conservation or
ganizations, albeit less formally). In this our 1995
Annual Report, we would like to thank the many do
nor groups (over a dozen in all) who provided funding
and other support for this program. We also thank the
many non-governmental organizations who shared the
last decade with Island Resources Foundation. It was
a challenging, learning experience for us, as we hope
it was for them.
A new publication from IRF in 1995 {Widening The
Circle of Leadership: Strengthening Conservation
NGOs In the Eastern Caribbean) provides a distillation
of our experiences and findings after almost a decade of
exploring the role and leadership potential of Eastern Car
ibbean conservation groups. It is available at a nominal
charge (see page 7 for order information). The report is a continuation of the
dialogue between IRF and its NGO partners, but is also intended for the donor
community working in the region as many of the most significant findings focus
on international development assistance as it is directed to and impacts upon
small conservation NGOs. It also addresses the expanding potential for collabo
rative public and private sector partnerships in the environmental sector.
In addition to the institutional leadership role of NGOs, the Foundation
recognizes the importance of individual leadership in advancing environmental
stewardship and balanced development. To this end, IRF established the Euan
P. McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award in 1988 to acknowledge an
nually one young (under 35 years) Eastern Caribbean national who has demon
strated outstanding environmental leadership. (For more information about
nominations for the McFarlane Award, which carries an unrestricted US$1,000
cash gift, contact the Foundation's headquarters in St. Thomas.)
The 1995 award recipient is Mr. Jaialudin Ahmad Khan of Trinidad.
Although only 25, Jaialudin is already a recognized conservation activist who
combines his formal training in the design arts with a love for and knowledge of
his country's natural history. His efforts to increase public awareness about the
plight of the endangered West Indian manatee — as highlighted in the media and
published reports — have contributed to the establishment of a field research
station in the Nariva Swamp, habitat to the Trinidadian manatee population.
The Caribbean Forest Conservation Association in nominating Jaialudin
wrote, "... he can speak with the local bush man as well as with a university
professor or minister of government. He is able to gain the confidence of local
community members who are normally suspicious of outsiders, ... and is there
fore able to gather more information about the status of species in Trinidad than
most scientists, game wardens, forestry or other governmental researchers."
Our congratulations to Mr. Jaialudin Ahmad Khan.
THE MUKTI FUND BOARD - Martin Dupuis (far
left) and Michael Dively (far right), co-founders of the
Mukti Fund, are joined by fellow board members (I - r)
William Moody of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Judith
Towle of Island Resources Foundation, and Thomas
Fox of World Resources Institute.
Since 1991, the Mukti Fund, a private,
U.S. foundation, has collaborated with
Island Resources Foundation in support
of institutional development for conser
vation NGOs in St. Kitts and Nevis. The
Mukti Fund has awarded over US$70,000
to IRF as part of a program to strengthen
private sector Kittitian and Nevisian insti
tutions that promote cultural and natural
resource conservation.
In its 1995 publication, " Widening The
Circle of Leadership ". Island Resources
Foundation recognizes the Mukti Fund
as a unique donor organization which,
although limited in financial resources, is
extremely effective by focusing its grant-
giving efforts and sustaining its philan
thropic outreach over a substantial pe
riod of time. A case study is provided
which traces Mukti's development and
highlights its current assistance program.
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F O U N D A T I O N
The New Marketplace
of Information and Ideas
For over two decades, Island Resources Foundation has devel
oped its programs based on the premise that information is the key to
informed decision making about the environment. In the 23 years
since the Foundation began sponsoring environmental research and
technical assistance programs focused on small developing islands,
particularly those in the Caribbean, IRF has directly or indirectly
sponsored hundreds of publications, workshops, and non-formal in
formation products in support of this underlying premise.
Often, however, we realized that environmental research findings
were not used as effectively as we had anticipated, due primarily to
problems associated with accessibility and with the applicability of re
search findings to management requirements. Many of these problems
have not been addressed in a systematic fashion in the past by gov
ernments, the donor community, and NGOs. Fortuitously, emerging
new technologies have begun to re-focus attention on information
management needs, accessibility, and relevance.
Under the leadership of its vice president Bruce Potter, Island
Resources Foundation has begun to explore its role in helping to de
fine and build a new infrastructure for environmental information in
the Caribbean. As coordinator of the Virgin Islands Resource Man
agement Cooperative (VTRMC), and through its Eastern Caribbean
Biodiversity Program, Island Resources is looking at an entirely new
range of program issues and organizational development options.
In the emerging world of electronic
Information exchange, there should
not be debtor nations. In the new
balance of trade of ideas, very
small players can contribute very
big Ideas (from Wired, April 1995).
In the months ahead, the Foundation will expand the amount of
information it makes available on the Internet (for example, we want
to eventually publish all eight Country Environmental Profiles for the
Eastern Caribbean on the Internet). We will continue to disseminate
news about available environmental information infrastructure in the
Caribbean. We are encouraging development of information models
which actively encourage the application of biodiversity information in
planning and development control decision making. We are pursuing
methods that ensure the comparability and inter-operability of conser
vation databases throughout the Eastern Caribbean. And we support
the creation of "open access" coverage of environmental themes and
data exchange policies that stress the sharing of both data and data
products.
For more information on these initiatives, contact Bruce Potter at
the Foundation's Washington, D.C. office or via the Internet at
irf@irf.org.
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IRF coBaborated in the Mowing regional meetings and
training activities in 1995. Participation was limited to
those activities that provided an opportunity to share the
current research, program findings, publications and new
initiatives of Island Resources Foundation.
•S Caribbean study tour sponsored by the American Mu
seum of Natural History (January) (Bruce Horwfth was
Resident Naturalist aboard the Sea Cloud ]
S NGO Consultations, sponsored by the Global Envi
ronment Facility (GEF), Washington, DC (February)
[IRF is accredited to the GEF; it actively promoted ac
creditation by other Caribbean NGOs and dissemi
nated information about the GEF to Caribbean groups
unable to attend the Washington meetings]
* Third Biennial Gulf of Mexico Symposium, Corpus
Christi, Texas (March), with international participation
from Wider Caribbean countries [invited paper pre
sented by Bruce Potter]
S Caribbean Meeting of Experts to evaluate progress in
the implementation of the SIDS (Small Island Develop
ing States) Program of Action, Port of Spain, Trinidad
(May) [Bruce Potter represented the Foundation]
■S Conservation Training Week for Latin America and
Caribbean partners of The Nature Conservancy, Quito,
Ecuador (May) [Biodiversity Program Director Bruce
Horwith participated in the ecotourism module]
S Workshop on Integrated Planning and Management of
Coastal Areas in the Wider Caribbean, Kingston, Ja
maica (June) [IRF's president Edward Towle prepared
the draft guidelines used as the basic document under
review by this Regional Meeting of Experts]
■S Coastal Resources and Habitat Management Training
Seminar, sponsored by the ENCORE project of the
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, St. Lucia
(July) [Edward Towle was a lecturer]
S Fourth Caribbean Marine Debris Workshop in the Do
minican Republic (August) [invited paper presented by
Bruce Potter]
S Regional Planning Consultation for CARICOM coun
tries concerned about Global Climate Change, Barba
dos (September) [Bruce Potter was a participant at the
invitation of OAS]
S Experts Meeting on Identifying and Monitoring Biodi
versity and Its Utilization in Commonwealth Small Is
land Developing States, Malta (November) [attended by
new Biodiversity Program Associate, Kevel Lindsay]
S Seminar on Facilitating Access to Environmental In
formation in the Caribbean, sponsored by Caribbean
Conservation Association and UNEP/INFOTERRA,
Kingston, Jamaica (November) [invited paper pre
sented by Bruce Potter]
•/ Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission of UNESCO, Sub-Commission for the
Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE), Barba
dos (December) [invited papers presented by Edward
Towle and Bruce Potter]
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F O U N D A T I O N
N e w P u b l i c a t i o n s F r o m I R F I n 1 9 9 5
V Bruce Potter, Global Environment Facility (GEF) Overview, 4 pp.
Prepared following IRF participation in GEF NCO
Consultations in Washington, DC (Feb.). US$1.00.
V Judith Towle, The Donor Directory: A Guide To Who Is Support
ing Sustainable Resource Development in the Eastern Carib
bean), 86 pp.
Published version of this document is already out
of slock, but IRF can provide a photocopied Di
rectory for US f 12.00.
V Judith Towle and Bruce Horwith, The NGO Directory.
A Guide To Environmental Non-governmental Organizations
Supporting Conservation and Resource Management Programs
in the Eastern Caribbean, 55 pp.
US$5.00/copy to U.S. addresses: US$7.00/copy to
non-U.S. addresses (do not add 15% for postage
and handling for orders of this publication).
y Judith Towle, Bruce Horwith, Giles Romulus, and Reynold
Murray, Widening the Circle of Leadership: Strengthening Con
servation NGOs in the Eastern Caribbean, 45 pp.
This publication represents a distillation of the
Foundation's experiences and Findings following
almost a decade of focused assistance to con
servation NGOs in the Eastern Caribbean.
US$5.00/copy to U.S. addresses; US$7.00/copy to
non-U.S. addresses (do not add 15% for postage
and handling for orders of this publication).
V Bruce Potter, Caribbean Environmental Information Infrastruc
ture Initiatives. 16 pp.
First presented as a paper at the Gulf of Mexico
Symposium in Corpus Christi, Texas (March): pre
sented in a revised form at the Fourth Caribbean
Marine Debris Workshop in the Dominican Re
public (August): and presented in its cunent form
at a Seminar on Environmental Information in
Kingston, Jamaica (November). US$2.50.
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A Sample of IRF Accomplishments In 1995
"V Ended the formal phase of a nine-year program that pro
vided technical assistance and institutional development
support to conservation non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) in the Eastern Caribbean. IRF assisted its NGO
partners in generating over US$300,000 in direct funding for
NGO projects on agroforestry, biodiversity, conservation,
ecotourism, and institutional development.
V Drafted guidelines to facilitate integrated coastal area plan
ning and management In the Wider Caribbean, including ap
propriate institutional arrangements and major compo
nents for plan preparation and program implementation
(developed by IRF president Edward Towle for UNEP's Re
gional Coordinating Unit in Kingston, Jamaica).
"V Prepared an updated Hazard Mitigation Plan for the U.S.
Virgin Islands, developed by IRF vice president Bruce Pot
ter, assisted by research associate David Brower and VI
consultant Brian Turnbull, for the VI Emergency Manage
ment Agency. (Ironically, the contract for this work was
signed by the Foundation and the VI Government the day
before Humcane Marilyn battered St. Thomas').
"V Assisted the Organization of American States in the develop
ment of information documents for CARICOM countries
which are parties to the Global Climate Change Convention.
v Prepared an Environmental Assessment Report in the British
Virgin Islands which, according to the Government's Plan
ning Department, "sets a new standardfor this type of work
in the BVI."
V Recipient of one of seven grants awarded in 1995 by the
Biosphere Reserve Directorate of the U.S. Man and the Bio
sphere Program.
"V Facilitated the establishment of a GIS Users Group for the
British and U.S. Virgin Islands, a new grassroots network to
share information about new data sources and technol
ogy (under the aegis of the V.I. Resource Management
Cooperative).
\ Established a home page for Island Resources Foundation on
the World Wide Web. Look in on the Foundation at
http://www.irf.org.
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Where Ihe SS Went (FY 95)
Prog. Dev. & Fund
Raising
9%
Other
4%
Administration
16%
NGO Support
20%
Land Stewardship
2%
Library & Information
Services
8%
V.I. Programs
12%
Biodiversity
25%
Environmental
Guidelines
4%
V is a 23-year-old development assistance or
ganization with a special interest in protect
ing and enhancing the environments of small
islands, especially those in tropical areas;
•\ is a service organization that provides tech
nical and professional planning assistance
on contract or with donor support;
V is an interdisciplinary organization whose
programs emphasize problem solving, tech
nical skills building, institution strengthening
and insular-focused research;
V is a major contributor to global initiatives
designed to enhance the development op
tions of small islands.
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V is a non-endowed, operating foundation;
A is a non-profit organization that is also tax
exempt in the United States;
V funds its activities primarily through a
combination of donor support, member
ships, and contributions;
-\ also undertakes resource planning and
environmental impact assessment work,
often as a joint venture with public and
private sector institutions.
Where the SS Came From (FY 95)
Contributions
Miscellaneous
Foundations
54%
US Gov't.
29%
UN Agencies
5%
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