Special Tours
The Nurture Nature Campaign is proud to partner with wildlife rehabilitation NGOs on both islands to offer special tours introducing audiences to the harmful wildlife trade and fostering greater appreciation for the country’s rich biodiversity.
In these tours, animal ambassadors help convey the importance of keeping wildlife in the wild, whilst tour providers share on topics such as how to help an injured animal and ways to stop the wildlife trade.
Presently, the campaign offers tours to school children, faith-based groups, the tour guiding community, and others that might enjoy this shared learning experience. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
El Socorro Centre for Wildlife Conservation
Freeport, Trinidad
El Socorro Centre for Wildlife Conservation is a wildlife rehabilitation center that offers educational tours to groups and schools showcasing Trinidad’s biodiversity and rehabilitation efforts through animal ambassadors and a walk through of their facilities.
These tours, hosted by the ever gregarious Ricardo Meade, are received with excitement and awe as it is often the first time that visitors will have interacted with such animals as the Pink Toed Tarantula, White Hawk, Boa Constrictor, Spectacled Owl, and Porcupine.
The center is a temporary home to many animals that are being rehabilitated for eventual release, while also being the final home for animals that cannot be released due to serious injury, human habituation, or invasive species risk. They also offer formal training in wildlife rehabilitation through the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council.
Contact:
+1 (868) 366-4369
Corbin Local Wildlife Park
Mason Hall, Tobago
Corbin Local Wildlife Park is a wildlife education, rehabilitation, and propagation center started by Roy Corbin, a former hunter and now passionate conservationist, and Ian Wright, an artist and experienced forest rehabilitator from the UK.
They offer educational tours of the park which hosts a variety of animals native to Tobago. The discovery trail weaves through lush forest with naturalistic enclosures for such animals as Quenk (Peccary), Tattoo (Armadillo), Sally painter (Golden Tegu), and Moroccoy (Yellow-footed tortoise).
Visitors will enjoy spotting Agouti and Iguanas in the underbrush, watching birds and bugs at feeding sites, and reflecting on ponds frequented by Spectacled Caimans. The park aims to highlight Tobago’s wealth of biodiversity while also replenishing locally-threatened wild populations through the periodic release of animals back into the wild.
Contact:
+1 (868) 327-4182