Research Interests
Affiliates
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- Centre for Marine Sciences
The Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS) brings together marine scientists, based in diverse departments, as a multi-disciplinary group at the University of the West Indies. It maintains a research facility at the north coast, the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory.
- Jamaican
Iguana Research and Conservation Group
Founded in 1990 after the rediscovery of the Jamaican Iguana in the Hellshire Hills, this Group has launched a comprehensive conservation programme for the critically endangered lizard.
- Natural
History Division
Institute of Jamaica. The Natural History Division is the oldest division of the Institute of Jamaica. It grew out of the Science Museum and was established in 1879.
- Clearing-house Mechanism
for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Housed at the Natural History Division, Institute of Jamaica.
- Windsor
Research Centre
The Windsor Research Centre is dedicated to research and information on the Cockpit Country.
Government Agencies
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Fisheries Division
(Ministry of Agriculture) - monitoring and controlling the fisheries resource, and industry with the focus of achieving an optimum level of sustainable growth and development.
- Forestry Department
The lead agency responsible for the management and conservation of Jamaica’s forests.
- Ministry of Agriculture
aiming to ensure national food security; export expansion and the growth of agro industry.
- Natural Environment
& Planning Agency
Jamaica's leading agency for natural resources management and biodiversity conservation.