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Grenada

Vegetation description

Some small mangrove swamps exist in Grenada made up of red mangrove (Rizophora sp.), black mangrove (Avicennia sp.), white mangrove (Laguncularia sp.) and button mangrove (Conocarpus sp.).

Beard, J. S. 1949. The natural vegetation of the Windward and Leeward Islands. Oxford Forestry Memoirs 21. Clarendon Press, London. 192 pp.

National level mangrove area estimates

Year

Area
(ha)

Source

Trend

Methodology/Comments

1980

536

Spalding, M.D., Blasco, F. and Field, C.D. eds. 1997. World Mangrove Atlas. The International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan. 178 pp.

 

Map analysis based on wide range of maps, scale between 1:50 000 and 1:300 000.

1982

288

Eschweiler, J. 1982 Explanatory note to the land use maps of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique (1982 Scale 1:25 000). Land Use Division, Ministry of Agriculture, St. Georges, Grenada.

X

Cited in: Bacon P.R. 1993. Mangroves in the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In: Lacerda, L.D. 1993. Conservation and sustainable utilization of mangrove forests in Latin America and Africa regions. Vol. 2 Part I- Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.

1982

231

Paterson, G. 2000. Caribbean Workshop on Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forestry Management Country Report (Grenada).In: proceedings of the EC-FAO Workshop on Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forestry Management 21-25 February, 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad .

 

Secondary reference based on interpretation of aerial photographs.

1989

530

Weaver. 1989. Forestry development Grenada. Technical Report: Planning and Management Activities. FAO. Tech Coop Prog, FO:TCP/GRN/8851, St. Georges, Grenada

 

Cited in: Bacon P.R. 1993. Mangroves in the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In: Lacerda, L.D. 1993. Conservation and sustainable utilization of mangrove forests in Latin America and Africa regions. Vol. 2 Part I- Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.

1991

216

CCA/IRF. 1991. Grenada: Country Environmental Profile. Caribbean Conservation Association for Government of Grenada in association with the Island Resourcers Foundation and the Grenada National Trust, 276 pp.

 

Cited in: Bacon P.R. 1993. Mangroves in the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In: Lacerda, L.D. 1993. Conservation and sustainable utilization of mangrove forests in Latin America and Africa regions. Vol. 2 Part I- Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp. Largely based on: Eschweiler. 1982. (see above) and on Weaver. 1989 (see above). The "Year" is the publication year.

1992

255

FAO. 1992. Report on Land Use Watershed Management Grenada. Tropical Forestry Action Plan. Field document GCP/RLA/098/UK. By Gumbs, F.A., St. George's (Grenada), 44 pp.

X

Aerial photographs interpretation (dated 1992). Source of photographs: Land Use Division. Ministry of Agriculture. Government of Grenada. The estimate includes Petite Martinique.

Trends in mangrove area extent over time


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