about

Jamaican Petrel is a hub for information on plant and animal species, whether native, endemic or invasive.

We’re here to bridge the gap between researchers and the public.

Jamaica is a biodiversity hotspot full of unique plant and animal species, many not known by some Jamaicans.

And we are here to fix that !

Our mission is to :

1. Spread knowledge and awareness about endemic, native and invasive plant and animal Jamaican species

2. Make scientific information about these species more accessible to the public

3. Have all this information in one place.

That’s how we came up with the mantra

“Tackling conservation through education”

We’re on a mission to continually add to our database , species from the following categories :