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The atmosphere was charged as 222 members and staff of the Saint Lucia National Trust and 70 non-members gathered for the first Trust membership meeting for 2017. There was hardly any standing space in the Bougainvillea Conference Room at the Bay Gardens Hotel for the attendees who came from all across the island to discuss pertinent issues affecting Saint Lucia’s heritage.

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The Saint Lucia National Trust is preparing to host its first Quarterly Membership Meeting, for 2017, on March 11th from 1 p.m. at the Bougainvillea Conference Room, Bay Gardens Hotel in Rodney Bay. Trust Members and members of the public interested in learning more about our projects and programmes are encouraged to contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 452-5005 to confirm their attendance. Please note that Secretariat Staff will be on hand to enroll persons who are not members.

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​It was an intensive two days, as representatives from 27 civil society organisations met probably for the first time locally to discuss in detail the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The consultation dubbed “National Views on the Sustainable Development Goals and the SAMOA Pathway” was held from November 29-30, 2016 at the Golden Palm Events Centre in Rodney Heights. This important consultation organized by the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations of Saint Lucia in collaboration with the Saint Lucia National Trust was made possible with funding from the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) implemented by the United Nations Development Programme.

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The Governor General Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy issued a challenge to the Saint Lucia National Trust to augment efforts to make its wide-ranging conservation work more visible in the public domain. She congratulated the management, councilors and staff for the work they have undertaken over the past year, and for keeping its members engaged. However, the SLNT’s Patron noted that more needs to be done to give the organization the visibility it deserves. The call was made at the Trust’s 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Saturday, December 3, 2016 at the St. Lucia Civil Service Association Headquarters in Castries.

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In June 2012 Jamaica signed Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. Principle 10 basically seeks to ensure that all individuals are granted access to information about environmental issues, are allowed to participate in decision-making processes and have access to justice in environmental matters with the aim of safeguarding the environment for the benefit of present and future generations.

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The 2016 International Coral Reef Management and Leadership Program was a great success this year. We are proud of this year’s participants and grateful for the support of Australia Awards

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We first learned of the Integrated Resort Development proposal called the Pearl of the Caribbean by Desert Star Holdings (Caribbean) at a presentation in January 2016. The plan was to construct a race track and ancillary facilities for thoroughbred horses, a marina, hotels and condominiums, waterfront homes, shopping malls and a casino on 699.5 acres of land in Vieux Fort, including the entire 180 acres of the Mankote Mangrove. The inclusion of the mangrove raised a red flag for the Trust and this concern was immediately raised with the developer. This matter resurfaced in July 2016 when it was announced that government has entered into a framework agreement with the developer to proceed with the development.

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The Director of Orchestras at the Saint Lucia School of Music and member of the Saint Lucia National Trust, Liz Ehrman has seen the importance of involving her students in advocacy efforts to get Saint Lucia and other Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) non-signatory countries to sign on to the LAC Declaration on the application of Principle 10. Principle 10 which has its origin in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development seeks to involve citizens in the decision making processes regarding environmental matters.

Ms. Ehrman and her students have produced two jingles; “2, 4, 6, 8, Principle 10” sung by Khaia Smith with narration by Shan Lucien can be seen on YouTube at: http://tinyurl.com/h9rpzu9 as well as on the Information Board section on http://www.lacp10.org. Funds will be provided to support the promotion of both jingles, thanks to The Access Initiative (TAI), through a project funded by Open Society Foundations entitled “Improving Environmental Safeguards and Good Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean”.​

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First of all, not being an early morning person, highly appreciative of the fact that the tour of Mankote Mangrove started at a decent hour: around 10 am - presumably to allow the Castries posse to wind their way down to the south. Living in Vieux Fort, it ordinarily requires a visit to Hewanorra Airport on Sunday afternoons to see a wide array of unknown faces but I was pleasantly surprised, arriving that Sunday morning at Mankote, to see so many faces from out of town. Better still, the bunch of enthusiastic young people who introduced us to the facts of mangrove life and survival at Mankote, were all strangers too! That was a very odd but exceedingly pleasant experience because it testifies to the fact that anno 2016, a legion of young Caribbean men and women from around the Lesser Antilles play active, professional roles in the conservation and preservation of our environment. Poor old Mankote mangrove, which for so long, and by so many, has been treated as a mere convenient dump site for garbage, or a dirty swamp good for nothing else but some hanky-panky on a dark dirt road at night… For the first time in my experience, Mankote assumed its proper role of ecological importance as the largest surviving mangrove in the Eastern Caribbean. Hurrah!

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The Saint Lucia National Trust along with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Departments of Forestry and Fisheries, PCI Media Impact, ECO South Tours, the Au Picon Charcoal and Agricultural Producers and the Grenada Fund for Conservation, are hosting a ‘Mangrove Discovery Week’ from November 14th to 20th.

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The Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) in collaboration with the Southern Tourism Development Corporation (STDC) will be implementing a project entitled “Increasing the resilience to Climate Change and Natural Hazards, and reducing the rate of coastal erosion for Pigeon Island National Landmark (PINL) and Pointe Sable Environmental Protection Area (PSEPA) through Beach Stabilisation, Restoration & Enhancement”. The project, which will be launched in February 2017, is financed by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) in partnership with the German Development Bank (KfW) under the Local Adaptation Measures (LAMs) Grant Scheme.

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November 8th was probably one of the most memorable days in 2016 as the world waited with bated breath for the outcome of the United States of America Presidential Election. But for members and non-members of the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT), it was an unforgettable evening as Presenter, Mrs. Rudylnn De Four Roberts – Trinidadian Architect and President of Citizens for Conservation delivered an educational and engaging presentation at the 3rd Annual Trust Pioneers Lecture. The Lecture, held under the theme: “Caribbean Architectural Heritage: Identity, reality and future opportunities” was held at the Palm Haven Hotel in Gros Islet and saw participation of close to 60 persons including the Trust’s Patron, Dame Pearlette Louisy.​

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Mr. Craig Henry, a Programme Officer within the Conservation Department of the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT), was one of 17 participants in the 2016 International Coral Reef Management and Leadership Programme, funded under the Australia Awards Fellowship Program in Great Barrier Reef from the 9th – 29th October. The programme targeted current and emerging leaders from the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean regions to observe first-hand Australia’s world-leading coral reef management regime to gain new skills and knowledge. The programme includes two courses – one on high level leadership for marine resource managers, Participants of the 2016 International Coral Reef Management and Leadership Programme and the other on excellence in reef management, with participants from each course coming together during a one-week overlap period.

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The Western Youth Chapter of the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) celebrated the La Rose (La Wòz) Festival which coincides with the feast of Saint Rose De Lima on August 30. To keep this cultural tradition alive, the Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) organizes a church service with a parade and Gwan Fèt with participation from all La Rose groups from across the island on this feast day, displaying pageantry reminiscent of European court.

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Usually as summer holidays come to an end parents and children start to feel the pressure of getting ready for the new school year, thinking less of why vacation was given in the first place. No time to relax or have some fun, running here and there to purchase the last book or school uniform in time for school. So to bring back the feeling of the scintillating summer sunshine the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) saw it fit to organize an event dubbed “Summer in the Park”. The aim of the event which was held on Sunday, August 28th was to encourage parents to spend quality time with their children in a relaxed atmosphere for one last time before the school bell rings.

On October 20, 2016 the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) membership team lead by our very own Director Mr. Bishnu Tulsie, visited the staff of Bank of Saint Lucia in Gros Islet. On arrival we were greeted by Mr. Bryan Vidal who initiated the meeting and we were happy to see many of the bank’s staff waiting anxiously to hear from us. The main objective of our visit was to inspire and encourage the staff to join the Trust, to help us fulfill our mandate to protect and preserve Saint Lucia’s rich patrimony.

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Staff from the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) and Forestry Department along with representatives from Fauna & Flora International and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust mounted an exhibition at the Blue Coral Mall, Castries on July 15, 2016 as part of activities to commemorate World Snake Day celebrated every year on July 16th. Saint Lucia has four living species of snakes, all of them found nowhere else in the world. Only one of the four species is venomous. There was a fifth species too, but that was driven to extinction around the turn of the 20th Century.

Twenty-two (22) Signatory Countries and over 40 representatives of the public made significant progress at the 4th Meeting of the Negotiating Committee for a Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The negotiation meeting which was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from August 9-12, 2016, was geared at raising the standards for environmental governance in the LAC region.

On September 1, 2016 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) opened the World Conservation Congress entitled “Planet at the Crossroads” in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The Congress convened with thousands of government and non-governmental organizations representatives debating and acting on critical issues such as biodiversity, the conservation of oceans, climate change, wildlife trafficking, women and nature, culture and nature, and the role that private sector investments can make in the conservation of nature, among other topics.

As part of an ongoing project being undertaken by the Saint Lucia National Trust on promoting public awareness of the Saint Lucia White Breasted Thrasher, SLNT’s Programme Assistant/Conservation Murlina Murray together with Saphira Hunt - Programme Assistant/South, Matt Morton of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and Stephen Lesmond, Jeannette Victor, Aloysius Charles and Rosemond Justin of the Forestry Department, administered the first set of questionnaires in the Praslin community. The purpose of the survey is to assess person’s knowledge of, and attitudes towards the species, and the practices that can positively or negatively impact the White Breasted Thrasher.

​In 2014 the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) underwent a rapid assessment of 250 buildings of architectural and historic merit island wide in Saint Lucia. Some of the Chattel houses, military buildings and churches that were visited were dilapidated (figure 1), abandoned or underused. These buildings represented a very important period in Saint Lucia in terms of both the types of construction techniques and use of materials of this period.

The Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) held a summer programme at the Vieux Fort Post- Secondary School from August 8 to 10, 2016 for youth between the ages of 9 to 17. This is one in a series of activities under a Junior Conservation Programme (JCP). This programme is intended to get young people deeper involved in environmental conservation by providing relevant but enjoyable learning experiences that factor in their way of life and the importance of the natural resources within their immediate environment.

The Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) continued its efforts to bring about a greater awareness of conservation issues by hosting two open sessions on May 14th and 21st respectively with professionals from various media houses and sectors (print and telecommunications). The sessions, which included presentations, discussions and field trips, provided opportunities for media personnel and agencies involved in natural resources conservation and management to have open and frank dialogue on issues related to natural resources regulations; associated opportunities, challenges and threats.

Nancy Charlery is a budding artist who hails from the community of Vieux Fort. Nancy, a past student of the Vieux Fort Primary School, got exposure for her talent when she started designing murals for the fencing of her Grade 6 class’ garden. At the time, Nancy was a member of her school’s Garden Club and wanted to beautify the areas enclosed forthe school’s garden. Upon viewing her work, she was selected to be part of the team chosen to create a visual display of a seascape for a litter bin competition organised by the southern office of Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT).

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