Tom's Mission

I have continually merged my professional goals with my environmental concerns. 
The realization that I have had the rare opportunity to integrate my profession with my personal
ideology has enabled me to maintain my enthusiasm even during the difficult periods of my career.

My greatest concerns center on the earth's inability to cope with the rapidhuman assault on its wildlife. 
Loss of habitat to commercial development coupled with human indifference towards the environment 
has deteriorated our quality of life, while allowing precious wildlife to slip into the history books.

My mission is to be a positive force in curbing these losses. Through the various activities I attempt to 
instill a sense of appreciation towards the total environment. I encourage my visitors to escape, 
if only temporarily, from their human made confines to experience a bonding with the earth on 
an intimate basis. Through a close and personal encounter with a wild place, I believe people can 
be made aware of their connection to the natural world.

It is with this mission that I devote my professional energies. To me, eco-tourism is the marriage 
of an altruistic mission to an economic model! The union of mission and model produces "sustainable tourism" 
which is critical to providing hope for many species and ecosystems throughout Cayman and the world.
Important also is that a career in eco-tourism provides a platform for "responsible capitalism". 
Encouraging and promoting responsible capitalism is essential if we are to
maintain a viable, biologically diverse planet in the future.

Thomas Lawrence Watling