The Mare de MillRum is a small pond of 6000m2, property of the Collectivity of Saint-Martin. For several years, it has been undergoing profound transformations in its ecosystem due to invasive alien species that are developing there without control. The Collectivity has decided to organize a training session with the aim of educating about the protection of this natural space.
Last Saturday, after numerous exchanges with specialists from the Pôle Relais des Zones Humides Tropicales, based in Martinique and mobilized on the "REMA" project for the restoration of the ponds of the Antilles, a first "nature project" was organized by the Collectivity.
The objective of this intervention was to train several members of local associations working in the field of the environment in the methods of combating invasive alien species and to put this knowledge into practice on the sites concerned.
Several associations responded to the call and attended the training organized by the Collectivity of Saint-Martin on Friday February 3. The next day, a first “nature project” took place on the site of the Millrum pond.
"The restoration of habitats, the reconquest of biodiversity and the protection of natural environments, are fields of application that the Collectivity has decided to support and which should offer new perspectives to associations", underlines Bernadette Davis, vice-president in charge of the Living Environment. “I am therefore very proud of this first operation and I would like to thank Matthieu and Mélanie from the Tropical Wetlands Relay Pole, for their involvement in the service of local associations which have also understood the challenge of this environmental protection project”.
Other nature projects will be organized as needed, they will systematically be the occasion for a transfer of skills from specialists to our associations so that Saint-Martin is quickly up to the environmental challenges that arise. impose on us because of a very high population density and climatic upheavals which endanger the living.
It is up to us collectively and at the scale of the territory to bring out such initiatives, providers of training and jobs. A commitment which, in the long term, will be part of an increase in the power of territorial competence in terms of the environment.
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