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Anse
Royale Secondary School protects local beach
Students from
the Anse Royale Secondary school recently erected beach barriers
at one of the local beaches. The students were assisted by staff
from the Coastal Zone Management Unit and the Forestry Section
from the Ministry of Environment. Ms. Mariette Esparon a teacher
from the school requested the Ministry to install beach barriers
at the small pocket beach, located just opposite the school compound,
the students at the school themselves had complained that motor
vehicles were parking too close to the beach.
The Ministry
of Environment already has a programme of installing the barriers
at beaches, such barriers are put in place to control the parking
distance of vehicles at beaches and to protect the young coastal
vegetation planted on beaches. Vehicles parking too close or on
to the beach system damage the beach itself and its vegetation
eventually leading to beach erosion.
The Ministry
will be intensifying its efforts in putting in place even more
of these barriers to protect the fragile beach systems.
Photo
caption: Students from Anse Royale Secondary School installing
a barrier to prevent vehicles driving onto the beach near their
school, November 2003
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