It has been delivered to the eye of the Saint Lucia Nationwide Belief, that unauthorised visits are being made to the Maria islands, with rubbish and human excrement being left behind. These islands are a protected nature reserve and are house to endangered and endemic species together with, the Saint Lucia Whiptail lizard and Saint Lucia Racer. The latter being acknowledged because the world’s rarest snake, with an estimated inhabitants of solely twenty (20) people.


As a result of critically endangered standing of the species on these islets, strict bio-security controls are in impact and visits to the Maria Islands are solely authorised by means of the Nationwide Belief. Additional, the discarding of rubbish, together with glass bottles, not solely creates bio-security hazards, however may result in fires on these islets and the doable extinction of those species.
Anybody discovered on the Maria Islands with out the permission of the Nationwide Belief shall be committing an unlawful act below the Wildlife Safety Act, No. 9 of 1980 and shall be liable on abstract conviction to a high-quality not exceeding 5 thousand {dollars} or to a time period of imprisonment not exceeding twelve months.
The Belief is appreciative of the general public curiosity in visiting the Maria Islands Nature Reserve, nonetheless, the islets are presently closed to visitation in the course of the breeding season of a few of these species. Excursions to the islets will resume in 2024.
Please contact the Belief’s Southern Workplace for additional info or to report unlawful entry to the Maria Islands. See contact info under.
The Saint Lucia Nationwide Belief thanks the Public of its continued help and help in making certain that the Maria Islands Nature Reserve stays a Nationwide Treasure that each one Saint Lucians might be happy with for generations to come back.