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The AWNC is a “Not-for-Profit” Trust established in 1967 by a group of naturalists and bird-watchers to “protect part of the Arima Valley in a natural state and to create a conservation and study area for the protection of wildlife and for the enjoyment of all.” It was one of the first nature centres to be established in the Caribbean.
Comprising nearly 1,500 acres of mainly forested land in the Arima and Aripo Valleys of the Northern Range, the AWNC’s properties will be retained under forest cover in perpetuity, to protect the community watershed and provide important wildlife habitat.
The Centre’s main facilities are located on a former cocoa-coffee-citrus plantation, previously known as the Spring Hill Estate. This estate has now been partly reclaimed by secondary forest, surrounded by impressive rainforest, where some original climax forest on the steeper slopes have a canopy of 100-150 feet. The whole effect is one of being deep in tropical rainforest.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE IN ACTION CONTEST
1 OCTOBER 2019– 17 JANUARY 2020
CHALLENGE– The 3 R’s in Action
Design a project capable of REDUCING waste in your classroom, school or home and document highlights of this project in the form of a short video (7 minutes or less).
PRIZES
Finalists will present their projects at a fair to be held at Brazil Secondary School on 29 February 2019
Winners and runners-up will receive iPads, GoPro Cameras, and/or Wireless Earbuds
FOR DETAILS ON GETTING YOUR CHILD OR SCHOOL CLASS INVOLVED
CLICK HERE
A MESSAGE FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL GUESTS AND VISITORS
Make a Contribution – Become a Friend!
If you are International visitor and wish to make a contribution please visit The Friends of the Asa Wright Nature Centre Donation Page link below where you can help support our work with your gift by making an online credit card donation. 
You can use this online credit card link for donations in your own currency: USD, GBP, Canadian Dollar, and the Euro.
Donate
Donations may also be made by check. Please mail your contribution, payable to the “Friends of the Asa Wright Nature Centre” to Secretary, FOAWNC, 2601 Burlington Ave N, Saint Petersburg, FL 33713.
Note to donors from the United States: The Friends of the Asa Wright Nature Centre, Inc. is a not for profit corporation organized under the laws of the state of Florida and is recognized by the U.S. government as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions received from residents of the United States are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. (Federal EIN# 01-0832520)
Catch up on all of the Centre’s programs and outreach activities in each new issue of The Bellbird, the official newsletter of the Asa Wright Nature Centre. Issues can be dowloaded in PDF format and can be read