Last Updated on February 27, 2023, 6:39 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The Ministry of Environment, headed by Dr Joyelle Clarke, has announced their Green Monkey management seminar in collaboration with the Invasive Alien Species Project. The meeting will be held at the St Kitts Marriott resort on Tuesday, February 28, 2023. The Workshop is a strategic seminar to define management techniques for the management of the alien species.
The programme’s stakeholders suggest St Kitts and Nevis house at least 30,000 green monkeys on the island. If the statistic is taken per square kilometre, the population density is one of the highest in all the other regions where the species is found.
Further, the stakeholders have asserted that to address food security issues of the federation, they need to address the issue of Invasive species like the green monkey. Other invasive alien species include:
WILD TAMARIND
BLACK RATS
INDIAN MONGOOSE
CORAL CREEPER
BROWN RATS
GREEN MONKEY
FIRE ANTS
TROPICAL BONT TICK
PACIFIC LIONFISH
PINK HIBISCUS MEALYBUG
The session being hosted on Tuesday, February 28 2023, will focus on the resolution of issues caused by the invasive alien species. In collaboration with the Invasive Alien Species Project, the Workshop of the Ministry of Environment will discuss ways of addressing issues related to green monkeys. The session will be hosted under the theme: Detect Declare Protect.
The session will start with all the Invasive Alien Species Project stakeholders coming together at the St Kitts Marriott Resort. The event will start at 8:00 AM on Tuesday. The Invasive Alien Species Project is a four year project sponsored by the GEF which targeted management strategies and data collection on the green monkey. The green monkey is St. Kitts and Nevis’s most problematic invasive alien species.
The project is being held with the aim to Prevent Invasives in St Kitts and Nevis. It will further help the federation in ensuring food security for its people and reduce dependency on foreign exports.
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