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