Bid to protect Bimini mangroves goes international

Wed, Oct 29th 2014, 06:02 PM

 Bid to Protect Bimini Mangroves Goes International - Experts call on the Bahamas government to live up to its promise and protect marine resources that sustain crucial local industries.  Save The Bays recently released a video which was taken when experts visited the proposed North Bimini Marine Reserve  recently.<br />
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Pictured is an excavator digs near mangroves in Bimini as part of RWB's mega-resort construction. (Photo courtesy of Save The Bays)Experts call on Bahamas government to live up to its promise and protect marine resources that sustain crucial local industries
BIMINI, Bahamas -- International conservation experts are urging the government to fulfill its promise and protect Bimini's unique ecological heritage and the local industries that have depended upon it for generations.
The experts, hosted on a tour of Bimini by fast-growing social and environmental advocacy group Save The Bays (STB), called for the official establishment of the North Bimini Marine Reserve. Among other important natural resources, the NBMR would protect mangrove forests that serve as a nursery for the abundant sea life that has attracted so many visitors to the island over the years in the latest Save The Bay's release on their YouTube channel (http://bit.ly/1wb4rJ4).
"From an ecological perspective, its incredibly important to maintain these mangroves in order to maintain the whole marine ecosystem," said Rachael Silverstein, the Waterkeeper for Biscayne Bay, Florida.
"This is one of the only mangrove locations in this area and all of the important species that come from the Gulfstream, that people like to fish, have habitats here and live in the nurseries here and if we destroy that we also destroy our fishing industry and our diving industry and the repercussions can be felt across the Caribbean, across The Bahamas and certainly in Miami - we won't be able to come here anymore to fish, to dive or snorkel."

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