Enabling effective biosecurity in the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus Strategic
VALUE £2,572,235
WHERE Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla
Summary
Biodiversity in the five Caribbean UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) is globally significant and increasingly threatened by the impacts of invasive non-native species (INNS). Preventing the arrival of INNS is the best defence to mitigate their impact on native biodiversity. This project will strengthen at-border biosecurity in all 5 Caribbean UKOTs by inhancing biosecurity legislation, increasing effective inter-agency working, improving at-border biosecurity infrastructure and facilities and increasing in-territory agency capacity, improving regional capacity to prevent and respond to INNS incursions.
