Bio-diversity

The overall goal of the project was to highlight the importance of wetlands - mangroves and associated lagoon ecosystems. The project sought to collect information through research on the country s wetlands, to enable the valuation of this natural resource and to emphasize the need for its protection. The major project activities will include the compilation of a national inventory and overview of the country`s wetlands based on ecological priority, the identification of wetland sites that are of key conservation importance and socio-economic value to the country, detailed surveys and monitoring of selected priority wetland sites and restoration and conservation of selected sites.

Barbados