U.S. Embassy hosts Citizen Science and Climate Change Program in Kalinago Territory

The US Embassy team poses with representatives of the Kalinago Territory
The US Embassy team poses with representatives of the Kalinago Territory

The U.S. Embassy to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States was pleased to host Dr. Gillian Bowser, research scientist at Colorado State University, in a three-country traveling program to promote ways ordinary “citizen scientists” can help observe and promote awareness of climate change in their communities. The program traveled to St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dominica.

On Dominica, Dr. Bowser traveled to the Kalinago Territory, where she was warmly welcomed by leaders of the indigenous Kalinago community, including Chief Charles Williams and Minister for Kalinago Affairs Casius Darroux.

Dr. Bowser was treated to a tour of the Territory before conducting a citizen science workshop that focused on environmental changes the Kalinago had observed in recent years. During the interactive workshop, Dr. Bowser led the group on an outdoor excursion to collect various plant and insect specimens, as well as to observe the ecology of the Territory. To supplement the workshop, and fully equip the Kalinago with the tools to implement techniques that Dr. Bowser shared, the U.S. Embassy donated a number of electronic devices including two Apple iPads, a desktop computer, a printer, and a digital camera bundle.
“The U.S. Embassy hosted this program because the nations of the Eastern Caribbean are highly sensitive to the impacts of climate change due to their small geographic size, low coastal elevations, and fragile landscapes,” said Deputy Public Affairs Officer Jeff Barrus. “We particularly wanted to hold this workshop with the Kalinago people because they are generational stewards of their environment and keen observers of the changes taking place in it. The U.S. Embassy supports efforts to build capacity within the region to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. This begins with widespread awareness of the problem by the general population.”

Dr. Bowser is a research scientist at Colorado State University where her research is focused on biodiversity, sustainability, and women’s scholarship. She has devoted much of her efforts to how climate change impacts resources and communities. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Northwestern University, a Master of Science in Zoology at the University of Vermont, and a doctoral degree at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She worked with the National Park Service for over 20 years as a wildlife ecologist, including 11 years spent studying insects, bison and rodents at Yellowstone National Park

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6 Comments

  1. J.John-Charles
    October 19, 2016

    DNO thank you for the medium where by we can express our views.I also noticed lately you are not making my comments available to your readers. I wonder why.?

  2. UserName
    October 18, 2016

    Dr. Bowser led the group on an outdoor excursion to collect various plant and insect specimens, as well as to observe the ecology of the Territory…. with all good intent but a dangerous exercise in the absence of domestic laws to protect we locals in a fair and equitable way the utilization of genetic resources “Access Benefit and Sharing” – The Nagoya Protocol. https://www.cbd.int/abs/ or let us not forget the exploits they did in Africa under the disguise of bioprospecting. http://www.theopenunderground.de/@pdf/kapital/fairtreten/outofafrica.pdf

    • Kalinagoes Fought for Our Freedom
      October 19, 2016

      Well said! Our Kalinago forbears trusted the whites and their minions and see where it got them.

      They lost all their land and wealth and have to put up with being imprisoned on a ‘reserve’ whilst the very same whites and their minions treat them like ignorant specimen monkeys.

      We all know that ‘climate change’ is engineered by the very people who profit from it. We all know that the plan behind pushing ‘sustainablity’ which says that it is us, humans on the ground/ useless eaters, who are damaging the ‘planet’ which now must be saved from us, is to get rid of us in the end.

      Doesn’t the bible say that it is man that has mastery over the earth, not the other way around? Well, what the hell, these satanists don’t read the bible anyway :).

      You want to find out what this is all about, read the UN’s ‘AGENDA21’ – their plan for a one world government of the few over the many.

  3. Kalinago by Race and Proud
    October 18, 2016

    Yes, ask them to tell you:-

    1) why there is a USD60 million claim against the Swedish government by its own people for concealing geoengineering programs designed to change the weather in their country. See the links below: http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/60-million-usd-claim-against-government-of-sweden-for-failure-to-respond-to-citizens-request-for-information-on-chemtrails/

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/chemtrails-politician-ignites-controversial-debate-in-swedish-media/5308948

    2) Ask them to explain why the USA is involved in weather warfare (via HAARP technologies) that is warming the world and can create hurricanes and earthquakes :
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/weather-warfare-beware-the-us-military-s-experiments-with-climatic-warfare/7561

    3) Find out here how we are being fooled by these people about the climate: http://www.globalclimatescam.com.

    I am a Kalinago. My forebears resisted white lies, do the same.

  4. J.John-Charles
    October 18, 2016

    These people are all jokers.We were told by the president,because of his ascension to the presidency.
    “The rise of the ocean began to slow and the planet began to heal.”
    It is eight years after this statement,we should have little or no more storms, even hurricanes should be history.Yet the kept on repeating like a crack record,”Global warming and climate change.”

  5. Mandela Effect
    October 18, 2016

    Don’t believe their lies, they want you to give them the green light and to help them truly destroy our world.

    Be prepared for their lies and trickery and ask them to explain to you:-

    a) the Mandela Effect and who/ what is behind it (research this for yourself)
    b) Chemtrails
    c) Weather Modification for Warfare
    d) HAARP
    e) Quantum Physics and the opening up of portals to Demons via CERN and why the opening ceremony for CERN was a pagan ritual complete with horned goats;
    f) the UN’s Agenda 21
    g) the true meaning of ‘sustainability’
    h) if global warming is being caused by us, they should explain how the UN’s agenda (it is) to ‘save the planet’ from us, via depopulation will work
    i) if the ‘planet’ is overpopulated, why is it that its entire population can fit into New Zealand (which is a very small country).

    Tell them to go to hell where they come from.

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