There’s a deafening silence in T&T’s grasslands. Watch to find out where our songbirds have gone.

The Nurture Nature Campaign presents a webinar (45-min presentation and 15-min Q&A) with Faraaz Abdool on the missing songbirds of T&T.

Seedeating finches that have beautiful songs are heavily trafficked within South America and the Caribbean as well as to diaspora communities abroad. This trade threatens songbird populations throughout their native ranges and has even driven species to local extinction in Trinidad and Tobago. In this webinar, Mr. Abdool outlines the problem, provides evidence and discusses how we can preserve, if not restore, our remaining wild songbirds.

Mr. Abdool is a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Bird Status and Distribution Committee (TTBSDC), an acclaimed wildlife photographer and author of the book Casual Birding in Trinidad and Tobago. 

The webinar was originally broadcast on June 15, 2021 @ 5:30pm T&T time on Zoom and FB Live.