Learn about our community’s groundbreaking research on wild animal ‘pet’ keeping in T&T.

Discover the wild truth about captive wildlife in Trinidad and Tobago! Join green criminologist Mark Gibson and the Nurture Nature Campaign to learn about wild animal ‘pet’ keeping in T&T.

Trinidad and Tobago has a long history of wild animal keeping. However, the practice is under-documented and poorly understood. In response, Mark has led a community-based initiative to understand wild animal keeping in T&T since 2018. This work illuminates the scale of the practice and the harmful and illegal trade which supplies it. By using in-depth interviews, a nationwide household survey, direct observations, and a records review, we now know more about captive wildlife in T&T than we ever have before. In this webinar, the Nurture Nature campaign presents an overview of Mark’s results, including the number of wild animals in captivity, the number of households that keep wild animals, and serious associated issues of illegality, extinction risk, invasion risk, and animal suffering.

Mark Gibson is the Volunteer Director with the Nurture Nature Campaign, a green criminologist specialising in wildlife trades, and a PhD researcher with the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University.

This Webinar was originally broadcast on March 31 2022 at 5:30pm (GMT -4) on Zoom and FB Live.