CC Network Update
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Barbados Environmental Conservation Trust (BECT) and Conservation Collective (CC) will be formally concluding their affiliate relationship in September 2025. During our years of collaboration, we have jointly supported a range of conservation initiatives across Barbados and are grateful to our donors, partners, and grantees for their commitment and impact.
Following this transition, BECT will continue as a locally governed entity, focused on supporting environmental projects across the island. CC will continue its broader mission through its network of 20+ local environmental Foundations. We thank all supporters and partners for their continued dedication to conservation in Barbados and look forward to the next chapter of impactful work.
Following this transition, BECT will continue as a locally governed entity, focused on supporting environmental projects across the island. CC will continue its broader mission through its network of 20+ local environmental Foundations. We thank all supporters and partners for their continued dedication to conservation in Barbados and look forward to the next chapter of impactful work.
We’re proud of the wide range of impactful, grassroots work supported by BECT since the Foundation began in 2019. In that time, BECT raised BBD$1,102,294, awarding 15 grants to support local civil society and community efforts working and restore the island’s natural, on land and at sea.
BECT’s Digifish project, supported from 2022 to 2025 with funding from Edmiston, equipped and trained 83 fishing vessels with solar-powered tracking devices, gathering crucial data for traceability and sustainability in the fisheries value chain, laying groundwork for future Marine Protected Areas and viable, long-term livelihoods, whilst also empowering small-scale fishers to be stewards of their marine environment.
In 2024, BECT funded a rehabilitation action plan led by WIRRED – Walkers Institute For Regenerative Research Education and Design for a unique coastal wetland and estuarine lagoon called Long Pond, containing the rare and endemic black mangrove. This plan has outlined policy, legislation, regulation and enforcement objectives, key education and outreach activities and an exploration of funding opportunities, including ecotourism ventures, paving the way for other funders to support the future restoration of Long Pond.
BECT also supported The Barbados Sea Turtle Project – one of the oldest sea turtle conservation programmes in the world. With more than 100,000 hatchlings and nesting sea turtles rescued, and multiple volunteers equipped and trained to protect key nesting sites through regular patrols as well as a 24-hour SEA Turtle Rescue Hotline, BSTP also engages in outreach to boost awareness of sea turtle conservation. BSTP’s leader Carla Daniel, has been advising the turtle protection work that St Vincent & the Grenadines Environment Fund is now driving.
Away from the marine environment, BECT supported several projects in farming, one of which was an initiative delivered by Inter-American Institiute for Cooperation on Agriculture, to provide agricultural training to young people with disabilities. Courses included elements on entrepreneurship and financial literacy, as well as hands-on agricultural training, thereby giving these young people future opportunities in the agri-food sector.
These projects provide a snapshot of the crucial work which has been funded by BECT whilst it was part of Conservation Collective’s network. We wish the Foundation all the very best as it sets out on its own journey and look forward to hearing about future projects and successes in the months and years ahead.