Who we are ?

Welcome on SPAW-RAC’s website, the Regional Activity Center for Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife of the Caribbean according to the Cartagena Convention. Funded by the French Government, the SPAW-RAC works under the aegis of the Regional Coordination Unit for the United Nations Environment Programme in Kingston, to implement the SPAW protocol of the Cartagena Convention concerning the protection of marine and coastal biodiversity in the wider Caribbean region, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean Sea. The SPAW-RAC has been hosted by the DEAL of Guadeloupe (Guadeloupe Environment Planning and Housing Direction) since January 1, 2019.

SPAW-RAC’s mission is to promote regional cooperation in the Wider Caribbean Region in the pursuit of the objectives of the SPAW protocole. To this end, it carries out the tasks assigned to it in the four axis of the biennial program established during the Conference of the Parties (COP). SPAW Protocol’s diagonal activities have to do with communication, training and awarness-raising. Finally, the SPAW-RAC supports and implements projects to protect biodiversity and the environment.

In this section you will find further information about :

– Our missions and objectives
– Our team
– Our partners
– The Wider Caribbean Region
– The Cartagena Convention
– The SPAW protocol

Download the List of countries which ratified SPAW Protocol.