![]() Titled communities include Three Brother’s, Warapoka, Santa Cruz, Kwebanna, Assakata, Santa Rosa, Waramuri, and Manawarin. This includes eight Amerindian titled communities and three Community Development Councils (CDCs). ![]() The human population in and around Shell Beach Protected Area is also extremely important. Over 200 species of both coastal and migratory birds were recorded, giving the area significant potential for bird watching – an emerging tourism activity. This was achieved through the development of the Shell Beach Protected Area Management Plan which guides the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) in terms of continued management and monitoring of the area.Īccording to data obtained from research for the SBPA Management Plan, animal types include 28 reptilian species, 13 amphibian, 27 mammalian, and 27 macro-invertebrate species. These characteristics make the SBPA an important part of the National Protected Areas System (NPAS) and potentially an excellent tourism site.įollowing the passage of the Protected Areas Act in 2011 and the official declaration of Shell Beach as a protected area and with the PAC becoming operational at the end of 2012, efforts were initiated to develop and manage this site as a protected area. The beach is said to have gotten its name because it is made up of shells – fragments of mollusks, bivalved, and univalved shells. These turtles nest between February and August of each year. It has the longest stretch of mangroves, is rich in biodiversity and is well known as a nesting site for four species of Sea Turtle: the Leather Back (Dermochelys Coriacea), Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea), and Green turtle (Chelonia mydas). Located in the Barima-Waini Region (Region One) the Shell Beach Protected Area (SBPA) is the only coastal protected area in Guyana’s National Protected Area System. It is our hope that all of Guyana will value and have a sense of pride in our protected areas, our natural heritage – part of what makes Guyana so beautiful. More detailed articles about the NPAS including SBPA and its many unique plant and animal species will be published in the future. We are in the sea turtle nesting season so we take the opportunity in today’s article to briefly introduce to the public one of our country’s protected areas: Shell Beach Protected Area (SBPA) which is part of our National Protected Areas System. THIS fortnightly column produced by the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) is aimed at sensitising and educating the general population about Guyana’s National Protected Areas System (NPAS) and the work of the PAC which has the mandate of managing, maintaining, promoting and expanding the NPAS.
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