Par­tic­i­pants at the open­ing of the Foot­prints Eco Re­sort & Spa's ground-break­ing Na­tive For­est Walk last month, got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to view the 25 species of ma­ture na­tive trees on the prop­er­ty, and to help with the plant­i­ng of more than a dozen ad­di­tion­al na­tive species. Forestry spe­cial­ist Leo Lendor led the ex­treme­ly in­for­ma­tive in­ter­pre­tive tour, ex­plain­ing the ben­e­fits and char­ac­ter­is­tics of each species plant­ed, and how each would en­rich the en­vi­ron­ment.

The re­sort's fo­cus on the pro­tec­tion and en­rich­ment of the nat­ur­al en­vi­ron­ment has al­ready led to de­vel­op­ment of its im­pres­sive bird and but­ter­fly gar­dens, and it now hopes to en­cour­age even more wildlife with the de­vel­op­ment of the Na­tive For­est Walk. "We'd like our vis­i­tors, whether lo­cal or for­eign, to be able to ap­pre­ci­ate the rich­ness and di­ver­si­ty of our nat­ur­al her­itage-I think it's a re­source we un­der­val­ue as a mod­ern so­ci­ety," said chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Mia Per­sad-Dou­glas.

About Foot­prints Eco Re­sort & Spa

n Front­ed by Cul­lo­den Bay in rur­al To­ba­go, Foot­prints is 62 acres of re­for­est­ed for­mer sug­ar and co­coa es­tate. Af­ter 16 years of con­tin­u­ous op­er­a­tion, it's still the on­ly pur­pose-built eco re­sort on the is­land.

The re­sort care­ful­ly con­sid­ered every as­pect of its de­sign and op­er­a­tions to re­flect this en­vi­ron­men­tal con­scious­ness. This har­mo­ny is ev­i­dent in its sus­tain­ably con­struct­ed build­ings, eye-catch­ing but­ter­fly and bird gar­dens, or­gan­ic kitchen gar­dens and unique salt-wa­ter pools. With just ten units scat­tered across the spec­tac­u­lar spot, pri­va­cy is guar­an­teed for fam­i­lies look­ing for a qui­et re­treat, or cou­ples seek­ing qual­i­ty time to­geth­er.

For fur­ther in­fo, call 660-0416/0118/0421, e-mail foot­prints.re­sort.spa@gmail.com or vis­it foot­prints-re­sort.com