Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC)

1. Date Organization was Registered: August 15, 2000

2. Country of Registration: United States of America and St. Maarten

3. Address of Main Office:
   • Physical address: Nile Dr. #2, Maho, St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies

• Mailing address: 411 Walnut Street, #6749; Green Cove Springs, FL 32043-3443; U.S.A.

• Telephone: (1) 239-682-3518

Fax:

Email: info@epicislands.org

Website: www.epicislands.org

4.  Contact Persons:
		(a) Main Contact:	(b) Secondary Contact:
·	Name:	Tabitha Stadler
·	Email:	director@epicislands.org
·	Title:	Executive Director

5. Caribbean countries in which the organization has offices:
   • Maarten

6. Caribbean countries in which the organization operates or has operated:

• Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Maarten, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago

7. Purpose of organization (1 sentence).

Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC) is an independent non-profit founded in 2000 with the mission of protecting the Caribbean environment through research, restoration, education, and advocacy.

8. Program Areas – give titles and thematic focus:

• Songbirds as Environmental Indicators Program – ornithology, habitat, education, training.

• Conservation of Wetlands and Coastal Habitats Program – research, water quality, wetland restoration, wetland conservation, education, advocacy.

• Conservation of Key Marine Bird Habitats Program – ornithology, education, restoration.

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9. Current projects being coordinated by the organization (give titles only):
   • Conservation of Key Offshore Island Reserve of the Grenadines
   • Love the Lagoon project
   • Black-capped Petrel Project

10. Current projects in which the organization plays a supporting role (give titles only):

11. Participation in Caribbean regional inter-governmental arrangements:

12. Participation in Caribbean regional programs:

13. Caribbean or global organization(s)/partnership arrangement(s) in which your organization is a member:
    • United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
    • Small Islands Big Difference campaign

14. Participation in Caribbean or global information networks:

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations (OBIS/SEAMAP)

15. Information systems maintained by your organization:

(a) Documentation Centre:

(b) Online digital collection: Seabird Breeding Atlas of the Lesser Antilles. http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/418

(c) Databases:

• Seabird Breeding Atlas of the Lesser Antilles
• Wetland Bird Monitoring of St. Maarten/St. Martin
• Black-capped Petrel Radar Results (Haiti, Dominican Republic)
• Songbird Health and Survivorship (St. Martin)
• Avian Influenza Monitoring of Lesser Antilles

16. Current number of staff: _2_Full time _6_Part time _2_Voluntary

Information Updated:  December 17, 2019