Introduction
 
In 1983 the US-based Atlantic Center for the Environment and the Foundation for PRIDE (Protection of Reefs and Islands from Degradation and Exploitation), based in the Turks and Caicos Islands, joined forces in a cooperative exchange programme focusing on environmental education. This exchange between the Caribbean region and the Atlantic region of North America (the northern New England states, eastern Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) aimed at strengthening environmental education efforts in both regions.
Over the next three years, three Turks and Caicos teachers taught at a summer environmental education programme in rural New Brunswick; two young conservation professionals from the state of Maine worked in internship assignments in the Turk and Caicos schools, offering educational drama presentations on the marine environment.