About forty students from the Collège de Fort-de-France Seminar immersed in the mangroves of the Mangles area, Wednesday morning (February 24, 2021). They have made their contribution to the reforestation of part of this threatened area.
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Posted on February 24, 2021 at 5:26 p.m., updated February 24, 2021 at 5:35 p.m.
The agglomeration community of Central Martinique (CACEM) is the very first community in Martinique to have started a reforestation operation. In this case, it is a part of the mangrove located in the industrial zone of Mangles in Lamentin, just a few meters from a road very frequented by Martinique motorists.
It is there that the environmental experts of the urban community and those of the National Forestry Office made the sad observation of the degradation of the site, now completely invaded by an invasive grass.
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Two phenomena can explain this situation: the discharges linked to increasingly strong human activity, and also the consequences of Hurricane Dean in 2007. The hurricane had left a space completely devastated and deprived of trees necessary for the water retention.
The Cacem, has invested nearly 150,000 euros for this operation, which began in May 2019. 1,800 trees will be planted in order to save this space near the industrial zone.
(Re) see our report with Stéphane Petit-Frère.
Reforestation of the mangrove and the mangles with the visit of the students of the College Seminar.
Are interviewed:
Christie Colvil (College Seminar student)
Nicolas Amable (College Seminar student)
David Samuel (chef de service – Cacem)
Angéla Féliot-Virgal (responsible for sustainable development and planning – Cacem)
Yvonne Lerandy (compensatory referent from the Office National des Forêts).
Experts have identified a species that could help turn the situation around. This involves replanting the medal mangle, which the residents of the Lacustrine forest of Trinité, in the Bac area, know well.
1,800 trees will have to be planted
The first shrubs were planted with the “rangers” of the Édouard Glissant college in Lamentin, in June 2019. This week, it is the turn of the students of the Seminary College of Fort-de-France to take part in the operation .
Each mangle medal planted bears a ring with the first name of the student who buried it. A very symbolic way of making our young people understand the importance of saving a particularly fragile and very necessary area in our island contexts.
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