enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Caroni Swamp - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroni_Swamp

    Caroni Swamp is protected under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance. [4] The Caroni Swamp runs along the banks of the Caroni River and contains numerous channels, brackish and saline lagoons with intertidal mudflats. The Caroni Swamp also contains fresh water and saltwater marshes and is also known as a bird sanctuary ...

  3. List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snakes_of_Trinidad...

    Cascabel dormillon or Cook's tree boa (Corallus ruschenbergerii), Caroni Swamp, Trinidad. Forty-seven species of snake have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago, making the snake population of this area the most diverse in the Caribbean. Forty-four of these snake species are found in Trinidad and twenty-one in Tobago.

  4. Biota of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biota_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago

    The Caroni Swamp on the west coast of Trinidad has a fairly high level of salinity (compared to other major wetlands on the island) and is an important breeding and feeding habitat for several bird species (including magnificent flocks of scarlet ibis (one of the National Birds)) and several marine fishes and invertebrates.

  5. Scarlet ibis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_ibis

    An important local habitat for the scarlet ibis is the wildlife sanctuary of Caroni Swamp of Trinidad, a 199 hectares (490 acres) wetland reserve first designated in 1953 specifically to provide a habitat for the scarlet ibis. [39]

  6. Trinidad mangroves - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_mangroves

    The second largest is the Caroni Swamp, formed where the Caroni River enters Gulf of Paria just south of Port of Spain in the northwest of the island. [3] The ecoregion surrounding the mangroves on the inland side is Trinidad and Tobago moist forests, except for the Caroni Swamp, which is surrounded by a thin band of Trinidad and Tobago dry ...

  7. List of Wild Kingdom episodes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wild_Kingdom_episodes

    When the Guri Dam was built on the Caroni River in the wilderness of eastern Venezuela, it created a huge lake that flooded 500 square miles of prime wildlife habitat. Marlin, Jim and Stan help capture these stranded animals. [134] [135]

  8. To conserve or cull? Life in Australia's crocodile capital - AOL

    www.aol.com/conserve-cull-life-australias...

    Last year though, the government approved a new 10-year crocodile management plan to help control the numbers, which increased the quota of crocs that can be killed annually from 300 to 1,200.

  9. Category:Swamps of North America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Swamps_of_North...

    Swamps of the United States (1 C, 13 P) ... Caroni Swamp; Z. Zapata Swamp This page was last edited on 1 January 2017, at 00:29 (UTC) ...