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SLNT gathering signatures to Save the Pitons!
The St Lucia National Trust can’t take it anymore. The usually mild mannered organization is asking St Lucians and other supporters to sign on to a petition that is demanding that government should stop all development in the Pitons Management Area, which was designated a World Heritage Site.
Earlier this year, the St Lucia government was warned that if it did not place a moratorium on all development within the World Heritage Site, St Lucia was in danger of becoming only the second site in the world to suffer the disgrace of losing World Heritage status.
“We are deeply concerned and ashamed about the possibility that the Pitons Management Area may lose World Heritage Site status through the failure of the government of St Lucia to comply with its part of the the agreement with UNESCO,” the petition to the prime minister reads.
“We call on the government of St Lucia, acting on our behalf to comply with the requests of the World Heritage Committee . . . with the greatest possible urgency and certainly before 1st February 2010.”
St Lucia’s agreement with the WHC requires that St Lucia “urgently re-establish and maintain a moratorium on development decisions within or affecting the property.”
St Lucia is required to submit a report on the state of conservation of the PMA to the WHC by the beginning of February this year. After that the WHC will examine St Lucia as a World Heritage Site at its 34th session later that year.
At press time more than 300 signatures have been gathered urging the prime minister to stop the indiscriminate and often illegal real estate development taking place in the PMA. As an online petition begins to circulate, the Trust expects that hundreds more signatures will be gathered. (St.Lucia Star)