By Melissa Abdo, March 3, 2009
This critically important plant exploration and expedition is made possible through the dedicated staff from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and our key partners, the Institute of Jamaica’s Natural History Division, and the national Forestry Department.
For a few days starting today, however, our team is fortunate to be joined by staff from our full team of partnering Jamaican staff: including representatives from Hope Botanical Gardens in Kingston, and from the University of the West Indies’ Dept. of Life Sciences. Our great team is pictured below.
The team spirit was so contagious that we even had an unexpected addition to the team today: an intrepid little trail dog we fondly named “One Eye” managed to get her head in the group photo, and even followed us halfway up the Cockpit mountain!
