On the one hand we promote our country as being a naturalist's paradise and boast of the richness of our flora and fauna, while on the other we seem prepared to accept the continued depletion of our stocks of wildlife through hunting and trapping as well the ruination of habitat resulting from indiscriminate logging and quarrying in our forests and wild places.
So we are destroying the very assets that help to make us unique and special in the Caribbean archipelago.
We have a simple choice to make: We place a permanent ban on hunting including the trapping of wild birds and so conserve the thing that makes us truly outstanding in a Caribbean context, or we run the risk of ultimately becoming just another sea, sand and sex Caribbean tourist destination, limping along on a Carnival crutch.
Alex de Verteuil (ex-hunter)
Courland, Tobago