Press Release:- On 20th October 2021, the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) hosted two stakeholder consultations as part of an ecological assessment of the Ma Kôté mangrove forest being undertaken by the Institute of Marine Affairs based in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2015, a ground-truthing exercise undertaken by the SLNT, the Departments of Forestry and Fisheries, and the Aupicon Charcoal and Agricultural Producers Group confirmed a severe case of mangrove die-back which had first been revealed through Google Earth imagery. However, satellite images showed that a die-back was present from as far back as 2010. The team of consultants from
