Restoring Road Salt Pond, Anguilla: biodiversity conservation through community collaboration
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus
VALUE £348,854
WHERE Anguilla
Summary
Road Salt Pond is one of Anguilla’s most iconic landscapes. A narrow sandbar separates the 106-acre Important Bird and Biodiversity Area from the Atlantic Ocean and resident and migratory birds flock to the wetland’s brackish waters for foraging, roosting, and nesting. This project adopts a multi-stakeholder approach, permanently protecting this internationally-recognised wetland while enhancing its ecosystem value by increasing Anguilla’s protected area network by 300%, creating and restoring habitat, and providing opportunities for impactful community engagement in applied biodiversity conservation.
