On February 6 the SOLD OUT fundraiser Garden Tour for the Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust was a roaring success!  54 people...

An important role for the museum gallery has been to generate changing exhibitions of art and visual material to complement the larger...

What a great morning! After taking some friends to catch an early plane, Marie and Mike arrived early for the fifth VCHT Bird Walk of the...

A week has passed, so we are writing this trip report using seven days' worth of lost time! However, since there were 17 of us on the...

Ryan Yann eBird S44801276 Macaulay Library ML 95780801 It was another fantastic day in Vieques for the third VCHT Bird Walk of the...

Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) Dave Spier e: eBird S10399012 Macaulay Library ML 33376231 The Vieques Conservation and Historical...

Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus : Michael Murphy, December 18 2024 Even with the late-night and early-morning monsoon-like rains...

FY 2022-23 Towards a Community of Conservation: Climate Change Adaptation, Education, and Preparedness Download the Executive Director's...

Birders gathered for the VCHT bird walk at 7:30 a.m. on the Malecon. Immediately we spotted 4 Royal Terns over the water, 2 Brown...

Despite the dark clouds and threat of rain, nineteen birders eager to see some Vieques birds gathered in Esperanza early this morning....

One role of a Gallery Art Show is to learn more about the Vieques natural environment, to bring the community together, and to enjoy art....

Don't miss our next VCHT Speaker Series talk. Dr. René Esteves will share his knowledge about the impact of climate change on fisheries...

Twenty birders met at 7:30 a.m. on the Malecon for the fourth VCHT Bird Walk.  There we found four species: 1 scaly-naped Pigeon, 1...

To promote interest in birds and bird conservation among members of the local community, the VCHT Birding Team offered a walk for Spanish...

Stilt Sandpipers For our second VCHT Bird Walk (actually, we do a bit of driving too,) 14 birders met on the Malecon where we saw and...

12 birders met on the Malecon across the street from the Trust in Esperanza for the first of the season VCHT Bird Walk. We introduced...

Despite the first excessive heat advisories for Puerto Rico where the heat index reached 110 ℉ on Vieques, bird records were set for...

Join us for two ZOOM presentations: "Secrets of the Bio Bay" & "Behind the Scenes" at MANTA #1 The Secrets of BioBay The first, with Mark...

Please join our volunteer Bird Team to see some of the many species of birds that Vieques has to offer! All Bird Walks start on the...

On June 15, 2023, the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) designated Vieques Island as an Important Shorebird Site. Over...

A grant to to restore the marine-coastal systems of the Vieques Bioluminescent Bay. What great news to celebrate Earth Day! The Vieques...

With the assistance of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the VCHT maintains a collection of artifacts from the Pre-Columbian era,...

Two rare birds for the island, American Flamingo and a shorebird called a Ruff, that were first observed in the Fall, hung around all...

Birding is good for your health (New York Times, Dec. 10, 2022), and a fine group of folks gathered at 7:30 a.m. at the Malecon for a...

What a nice day for birding! That’s because such a friendly, enthusiastic group of participants joined the VCHT Bird Team for today’s...

Caleb Putnam eBird S68377216 Sixteen birders joined five VCHT Bird Team members at the Malecon at 7:30 a.m. Again, it was great to...

Tuesdays 2-3pm This Tiny Dinoflagellate is one of the biggest things we have in Vieques Take a closer look at the BioBay's biggest star...

Paul Tavares eBird S34913154 A diverse group of birders, including some new and some familiar faces, met on the Malecon for our bird walk...

Christoph Moning eBird S12622374 Eleven students and two professors from the State University of New York (SUNY at Syracuse), not quite...

Eurasian Collared-Dove Jim Merritt/eBird S64381142 An intrepid group of eager birders and volunteer guides (Marie, Mike, Chuck, Cesar,...

Blue-Winged Teal @Dave Spear/eBird S10399012 The VCHT Bird Team (Chuck Sklar, Cesar Montero, Marie and Mike Murphy, and Priscilla and...

The VCHT continues to do weekly sampling for plankton abundance, water quality and nutrient monitoring in the Bioluminescent Bay....

In Memory of Bill Shank

It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of one of the VCHT’s most steadfast supporters, Alison (Min) Flemer. Her...

An interview featuring VCHT's Mark Martin Bas by SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE "Puerto Rico's Bioluminescent Bays Are Brighter Than Ever"-...

The participants and leaders met again at the Malecon across from the VCHT at 7:30AM and had a wonderful morning. At the Malecon, they...

The Board of Directors and the Executive Director of the Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust (VCHT) invite all members to attend...

As usual, birders and leaders met on the Malecon across from VCHT at 7:30. In our brief stay there we saw 1 White-winged Dove on the...

January 18, 2022 Bird Walk The walks are led by VCHT’s Birding Team: Dale and Priscilla Doucette, Mike and Marie Murphy, Jeff Mandoza,...

Birds seen on January 2, 2022 Our team went birding this morning to scope out where we might take people on the walk on Tuesday the 4th....

December 21, 2021 Bird Walk The walks are led by VCHT’s Birding Team: Dale and Priscilla Doucette, Mike and Marie Murphy, Jeff Mandoza,...

January 4, 2022 Bird Walk Report Bird Walk Leaders Dale and Priscilla Doucette, Marie and Mike Murphy, Jeff Mendoza; Chuck Sklar January...

Since its creation in 1985, a main objective of the Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust's (VCHT) mission has been the preservation...

Over the years, the Trust has participated as a consultant in filming and documentaries that are shot in the bioluminescent bay. Our role...

To the community of Vieques: At the beginning of November we received, through an unofficial channel, a copy of a co-management contract...

This year for Giving Tuesday, the Trust introduces you to our newest community-based program The VCHT Resiliency Project The VCHT...

A core part of the Trust’s mission is education. During the 2020-2021 school year, when there were no in-person classes in Vieques, the...

The Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust is honored to be a grant recipient of the Crowder-Messersmith Conservation Fund in 2019 to...

(Reuters) - Scientists were baffled when a band of seaweed longer than the entire Brazilian coastline sprouted in 2011 in the tropical...

A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a hundred times larger than...