Scrub Island Case Study
From the earliest days of the British Virgin Islands history, Scrub Island has been a harbor. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the 230 acres (0.93 km2) island which includes Big Scrub (170 acres) and Little Scrub (60 acres). Scrub Island is an example of a thorn-scrub habitat. Scrub Island is formed by volcanic activity. (in class discussion) The future development of this area is likely to cause significant damage to the surrounding natural elements on the island. In order for them to carry out the plan for this magnitude of development it would involve the considerable destruction of both the terrestrial and marine environment of Scrub Island.
The removal and destruction of key environmental elements such as salt ponds, …show more content…
On today’s day there is news all over the British Virgin Islands newspapers and online that Scrub Island is reportedly bankrupt. They owe approximately 108 million to FirstBank. As a Resort Host and PBX operator there are certain information that you are required to know, for example; the 100 slip marina did not went as originally planned, they have a 52 slip marina. As discussed, there were loss and decline of natural resources. Salt Pond was destroyed along with the mangroves. There are a few red mangroves, they were left there more for decoration of the beach than really a nesting and nursery area for the juvenile fishes. The death of the sea grass follow by the death of coral reefs. Many turtles died in the process. The turtles were disrupted and carried to the other side of the island where other kind sea turtles natural habitat reside. While Scrub Island hired locals, the only thing good about the outcome was that they did not have permission to do the big marina that they originally planned to do because this marina was going to impact the corals that are parallel to Great Camanoe (Diamond Reef). This area is a popular dive/snorkel site for tourists. Another possible threat can be that they are building facilities on “Big Scrub” and the Big Scrub is up for sale and we do not know who will buy it or what they plans are and what other natural resource we are about to lost. These all began with the approval or just a sign of our Conservation and Fisheries Department and eager of the rich for
The removal and destruction of key environmental elements such as salt ponds, …show more content…
On today’s day there is news all over the British Virgin Islands newspapers and online that Scrub Island is reportedly bankrupt. They owe approximately 108 million to FirstBank. As a Resort Host and PBX operator there are certain information that you are required to know, for example; the 100 slip marina did not went as originally planned, they have a 52 slip marina. As discussed, there were loss and decline of natural resources. Salt Pond was destroyed along with the mangroves. There are a few red mangroves, they were left there more for decoration of the beach than really a nesting and nursery area for the juvenile fishes. The death of the sea grass follow by the death of coral reefs. Many turtles died in the process. The turtles were disrupted and carried to the other side of the island where other kind sea turtles natural habitat reside. While Scrub Island hired locals, the only thing good about the outcome was that they did not have permission to do the big marina that they originally planned to do because this marina was going to impact the corals that are parallel to Great Camanoe (Diamond Reef). This area is a popular dive/snorkel site for tourists. Another possible threat can be that they are building facilities on “Big Scrub” and the Big Scrub is up for sale and we do not know who will buy it or what they plans are and what other natural resource we are about to lost. These all began with the approval or just a sign of our Conservation and Fisheries Department and eager of the rich for