Outreach and Education
Lesser Antilles Seabird Atlas
The first comprehensive regional perspective on seabird populations.Read More
Songbird Banding
- Outreach and Education
- Lesser Antillies Seabird Atlas
- Black-capped Petrel Conservation
- Songbird Monitoring
- Wetland Monitoring
- Love the Lagoon
Welcome to EPIC
"Protecting the Caribbean environment through research and community-based action"
Since 2000, EPIC has been working throughout the West Indies to further the scientific understanding of the issues faced by the Caribbean ecosystem, educate the public about conservation, and promote public involvement in ecological restoration and protection.
Environmental Protection in the Caribbean currently receives a majority of its funding from individual donors. Please help support our critical research and conservation projects.
Recent News
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Seeing Birds In the Dark
- July 2nd, 2013
EPIC is one of the leading foundations in the Caribbean working towards the conservation of the Black-capped Petrel, an endangered seabird which is only currently known to nest on the island of Hispaniola. We specialize in using radar technology to locate new colonies of this imperiled species. This short video Read more...
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High Profile Gathering for Caribbean Challenge
- May 22nd, 2013
EPIC's Love the Lagoon Project Manager, Rueben Thompson, attended the recent Caribbean Challenge Initiative meeting in the British Virgin Island on behalf of St. Maarten. The Caribbean Challenge calls for special protected zones along at least 20 percent of the region's coasts by 2020 in hopes of protecting its biodiversity… Read more...
Latest Videos
Radar and the Black-capped Petrel
Caribbean Brown Pelican Chicks on St. Maarten
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Contact details
| Caribbean 2 Nile Drive Maho, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles Caribbean (599)-545-3009 |
United States 200 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Riviera Beach, Florida, 33404 United States (707)-845-1171 |