From December 4 to 6, 2017, volunteers and agents from the Saint Martin Natural Reserve in collaboration with Reef Check France, dived in order to carry out the annual diagnosis of the 4 Reef Check monitoring stations in Saint Martin: Galion, Caye verte, Pinel and Creole Rock.
This participatory monitoring makes it possible, thanks to the large number of stations established worldwide, to contribute to the global assessment of the state of health of coral reefs. For the local antenna, it was also an opportunity to go see the possible consequences of a particularly busy 2017 cyclone season.
The data will soon be used and transmitted to Reef check France to feed the Reef Check International database. As every year, they will be the subject of a report which can be consulted online on the website of the Nature Reserve.
If at first glance the fixed stands of these 4 stations seem unharmed, the mobile fauna seems to have been impacted, but only the exploitation of the data can demonstrate this.
Already a very low presence of underwater waste has been observed: mast, balm, and ropes were discovered at the Creole Rock, without the coral seeming to have been impacted.
Congratulations to the team of divers!
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