Welchman Hall Gully

Welchman Hall Gully provides an ecological research space and since 2009, the Gully has been promoting flora conservation with a Native Plant Restoration project.

It is an ideal habitat for the animal kingdom too, in 2008 the world’s smallest snake, Leptotyphlops carlae, was found deep in the Gully; it is only found in Barbados. It is home to a few of them, although they are so small, they haven’t been seen recently.

Monkey Spotting...

Monkeys are fed in the morning, feeding time is between 10.30am and noon, but remember they are wild animals and don’t always turn up on time!

Monkeys are not fed by hand, the food in simply left out for them.  This way, wild animals avoid becoming aggressive which they can do if being hand fed. They are relatively safe to be near, but never get closer than 15 feet (5m). There is one large troop (30 plus) living in the Gully, you can see them tuck into bananas on their specially build feeding platform.

Green monkeys are the cutest but sometimes also the naughtiest wildlife to be found in Barbados!

For this and other Conservation projects, please see the website.