The Promise of the Pawi

We believe that if a child connects to a single species in a single environment, it opens a window of respect for all life.  Children have a natural affinity for animals, and find pleasure in stories about them.  If these stories also extend their appreciation of important environmental issues, they set the stage for a more compassionate view of life in all its wonderful variety. It benefits us all.

The Guardian Life Wildlife Fund (GLWF) has been in existence since 1992 with a mandate to raise the consciousness of the environmental cause and mission among the people of Trinidad & Tobago - doing so with some measure of success, working primarily within communities. 

GLWF has embarked on one of our most ambitious programmes to date: saving the critically endangered Pawi or Trinidad Piping Guan which is endemic only to Trinidad.   A children’s book – illustrated by Leizelle KerryAnn Guinness and authored by Janice Hernandez, herself a former Trustee now living overseas – has been published so as to raise funds for a national campaign.