Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine April 2017 | Page 22
Anguilla National Trust
by Farah Mukhida
The Anguilla National Trust offers a variety of tours which range from nature hikes
to heritage tours, birding excursions, offshore cay adventures and island tours. Led
by staff with in-depth knowledge of Anguilla’s natural and cultural heritage, they are
always happy to tailor tours to the specific interests of their clients.
The Anguilla National Trust (ANT)
was established in 1988 through
the Anguilla National Trust Act.
It began operating as a formal
organisation with a mandate to
protect, preserve, and conserve,
Anguilla’s natural, cultural, and
built heritage in 1991, with a
primary focus of managing lands
and property vested by the
Government of Anguilla. engage in more specific work
programmes that speak directly
to increasing our national
knowledge of ecosystems,
species, culture, and built
heritage which, in turn, better
informs the recommendations
that we make, the partnerships
and relationships that we foster,
and Anguilla’s protected areas
network.
Over the last 29 years, the ANT
has grown from being a small
agency with relatively limited
staff to a larger organisation
with seven full-time staff
members and an attached
research associate, is overseen
and guided by a seven member
Council, and is supported by
over 100 members. While the
ANT’s mandate has always
placed emphasis on protected
areas management and culture.
With the expansion of our staff
complement, we have been able
to better and comprehensively More specifically, the Anguilla
National Trust focuses on
five main work programmes:
wetlands and terrestrial
conservation, marine and coastal
conservation, protected areas
management, culture and
heritage, and public awareness,
education, and stewardship.
These work programmes fall
under a much larger framework
that has been established by the
ANT Act (1988, revised 2009), a
long-term vision, and an over-
arching mission.
Vision Mission
The Anguilla National Trust is a respected centre of
environmental and cultural conservation and engenders a
revolution in environmental and cultural consciousness in
Anguilla. The Anguilla National Trust seeks to be a leader in
promoting, supporting, and enabling sustainable
development in Anguilla; committed to the conservation
of Anguilla’s natural and cultural heritage, while promoting
and supporting environmental and cultural stewardship.
Photos © ANT