STATUS AND TRENDS IN MANGROVE AREA EXTENT WORLDWIDE

Anguilla

Vegetation description

Anguilla is a low lying limestone island. Stands of mangroves occurr in ten sites on the margin of seven saline ponds and around three others on the adjacent Scrub Island.

Lacerda, L.D. 1993. Conservation and sustainable utilization of mangrove forests in Latin America and Africa regions. Vol. 2 Part I- Latin America. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.

National level mangrove area estimates

Year

Area
(ha)

Source

Trend

Methodology/Comments

1980

517

Spalding, M., Blasco, F., Colin F. 1997. World Mangrove atlas. The International Society of Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan, 178 pp.

Map analysis based on wide range of maps, scale between 1:50 000 and
1:300 000. The figure could represent the extent of the entire wetlands.

1991

90

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, Part I - Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.

X

Ground survey, reporting 270 ha of wetlands of which mangroves occupy one third.

1993

300

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, Part I - Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.

Cited in: WCMC. 2000. Coral reefs and mangroves of the world.http://www.wcmc.org.uk/marine/
data/coral_mangrove/ . The figure reported by WCMC is an approximate figure based on Bacon, 1993 (reporting: 270 ha of wetland). In the original document Bacon specifies that mangroves occupy only one third of the wetland (90 ha).

Trends in mangrove area extent over time

No major changes appear to have occurred in this country over the last twenty years.

Year	Area (ha)	Source	Trend	Methodology/Comments
1980	517	Spalding, M., Blasco, F., Colin F. 1997. World Mangrove atlas. The International Society of Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan, 178 pp.		Map analysis based on wide range of maps, scale between 1:50 000 and 1:300 000. The figure could represent the extent of the entire wetlands.
1991	90	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, Part I - Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.	X	Ground survey, reporting 270 ha of wetlands of which mangroves occupy one third.
1993	300	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, Part I - Latin America. p. 155 210. Mangrove Ecosystems technical reports ITTO/ISME Project PD114/90 (F). Okinawa, Japan. 272 pp.		Cited in: WCMC. 2000. Coral reefs and mangroves of the world.http://www.wcmc.org.uk/marine/ data/coral_mangrove/ . The figure reported by WCMC is an approximate figure based on Bacon, 1993 (reporting: 270 ha of wetland). In the original document Bacon specifies that mangroves occupy only one third of the wetland (90 ha).