St. Patrick’s Environmental and Community Tourism Organization is a non-profit
environmental and community tourism advocacy group based in the parish of St. Patrick’s in the Caribbean island of Grenada. SPECTO engages community in the protection and conservation of the endangered leatherback turtle species and the development of alternative livelihoods based on environmental conservation and activism.
SPECTO engages community in the protection and conservation of the endangered leatherback turtle species livelihoods based in environmental conservation and activism
Community Conservation
SPECTO’s voluntary members have managed the guided nesting tour operation on Levera Beach since 2010. We’ve hired over 10 community members as tour guides and beach security to assist the government in managing the Levera Beach Closed Area.
Environmental Advocacy
Founded by a group of senior community members in 2009, SPECTO has since taken up a co-management mandate with the Government of Grenada to manage the nesting tours of the critically endangered Leatherback turtle12
Sustainable Livelihood Creation
In 2015, SPECTO was awarded a United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants to help facilitate the scaling up of its work in the Levera Pond Protected Area and the Levera Closed Beach.
Endangered Species Protection
The St. Patrick’s Environmental and community Tourism Organization (SPECTO) is a not-for-profit rural community organization focused on raising awareness of environmental protection and the important benefits of conservation.
Turtle Tour
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Bird Watching
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Levera Pond Kayaking
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The leatherback sea turtle is the largest turtle in the world. They are the only species of sea turtle that lack scales and a hard shell. They are named for their tough rubbery skin and have existed in their current form since the age of the dinosaurs.
Leatherbacks are highly migratory, some swimming over 10,000 miles a year between nesting and foraging grounds. They are also accomplished divers with the deepest recorded dive reaching nearly 4,000 feet—deeper than most marine mammals.
Rudderfish long-finned pike–razorfish menhaden paradise fish, barramundi oceanic flyingfish. Blenny barfish false cat shark halibut. Dolly Varden trout lake trout. Pelagic cod swordtail
Thornyhead salamanderfish European minnow zebra trout gray mullet climbing perch ghost carp pelican gulper Blenny barfish false cat shark halibut Dolly Varden trout lake trout. Pelagic cod swordtail
14 – 18 PM
10 November