Recommendations to Saba's Island Council on Coralita management ...

The 25th of October 2018, Elizabeth Haber, Prof. Dr. Martin Wassen and Jetske Vaas met with Saba's Governor, the Island Council and Saba Conservation Foundation, to relay our recommendations for Coralita management on Saba. You can find all these recommendations in the attached document, which is what we presented to the Island Council and SCF, and sent to the Executive Council afterwards. On the short term we recommended: Clearing the small specks of Coralita from the upper part of the Crispeen trail and next to Mr. Barnes' sheep pen to prevent it spreading further up Mt. Scenery. Pulling Cor... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Vaas, Jetske
Haber, Elizabeth
Dokumenttyp: Scholarlyarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Invasive alien species / Coralita / Antigonon leptopus / Saba / Caribbean Netherlands
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29164178
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3534175

The 25th of October 2018, Elizabeth Haber, Prof. Dr. Martin Wassen and Jetske Vaas met with Saba's Governor, the Island Council and Saba Conservation Foundation, to relay our recommendations for Coralita management on Saba. You can find all these recommendations in the attached document, which is what we presented to the Island Council and SCF, and sent to the Executive Council afterwards. On the short term we recommended: Clearing the small specks of Coralita from the upper part of the Crispeen trail and next to Mr. Barnes' sheep pen to prevent it spreading further up Mt. Scenery. Pulling Coralita from trees in high erosion-risk areas, such as the Harbour gut and Middle Island Trail, since these trees prevent erosion. For the longer term we recommended: Regularly checking the trails, and removing Coralita immediately if encountered. After all, early removal is easiest and cheapest. Monitoring its spread above Dinda's supermarket (Hell's gate), along the mountain road, along the Well's Bay road and at Mary's ...