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Apart from the wealth of their plant and animal life, the islands of Trinidad and Tobago have some distinct advantages for the natural history filmmaker. The major one of these is the variety of habitats and their closeness to each other. For the making of Wild T & T, this factor was a great help to eco-tours operator Stephen Broadbridge and documentary filmmaker Alex de Verteuil who combined their respective talents to produce this forty five minute overview of the Caribbean’s two most richly endowed islands in terms of their flora and fauna. Stephen’s unrivalled knowledge of the wild places on both islands was developed over 12 years of running his own tour-guiding company, Caribbean Discovery Tours. Alex de Verteuil is the managing director of Pearl & Dean (Caribbean) Ltd. and has been shooting documentaries for the past twenty years. Wild T & T is the fifth in a series dealing with local conservation issues ranging from the destruction of Tobago’s Buccoo Reef to illegal rice farming in the Nariva Swamp, Trinidad’s richest ecosystem and a world Ramsar site.
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