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May 22, 2010 News
The latest in the series of regional consultations on the mangrove protection and restoration project held at Number 28 Village on May 13, last, drew approximately 100 citizens from the area and produced a range of suggestions for the Mangrove Action Committee (MAC) administering the project.
Many opinions were expressed about protecting the mangrove from destruction, but concerns were also raised about the need to provide grasslands to replace the present grazing areas and on the need to eliminate dumping of garbage in the mangrove forests.
Chairman of the MAC, Annette Arjoon-Martins, emphasised to the citizens that the project would not succeed without public support, and that the Committee was seeking to work co-operatively with the various neighbourhood groups to devise feasible strategies to protect the mangrove forests.
“We’re not coming making threats,” she said. “Our first approach here is to work with you, to get your feedback, on how to protect the mangroves that protect us from the sea. We want you to be involved with this, because this can’t succeed without you.”
Following powerpoint presentations by Mr Bissessar Chintamanie, the Project’s co-ordinator and Mr Paul McAdam, the Community Development specialist, the participants broke up into four groups to facilitate discussions and suggestions pertaining to the issues.
The MAC’s intention is to encourage communities to be responsible for mangrove protection, along the coast, and to employ community wardens who will be paid to be monitors in areas where they live.
Attention will also be given to discouraging both the dumping of garbage in mangrove areas, as well as the practice of using mangrove trees as fireside kindling.
The Mangrove Protection and Restoration project is jointly funded by the Guyana Government and the European Union (EU) and the Mangrove Secretariat operates under the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
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