There are people way more qualified than me to answer your questions but I will give it a start.

1. Good idea not to get me mad at you. LOL
2. This area is so important as it is the mangrove nursery area for Hol Chan Marine Reserve.
3. This group is looking at all developments and committed to upholding the laws of Belize. Dredging on the west side of the island will not create silt that will drift onto the reef. However, digging out Mangroves is still against the law.
4. The people of this group are San Pedranas. Billy Leslie is a full time dive instructor/operator and president of the Tour Guide Association. Mito Paz is in charge of Green Reef. These and many other have made many trips to this area BY BOAT! There is no solid ground - it is wet land.
5. I don't know when the last time any one went to Marco Gonzalez but it is on the only solid piece of ground in that area and these folks have lived here all their life and know the area well.
6. WALK ACROSS - I don't think any of them can walk on water - YET! LOL This area is teaming with fish and birds but Jeff Pierce's paid ecologist said there was not life here.
7. I only know where one of the group lives - it is by the high school. Maybe someone else can find the answers to this.

I'm glad you are asking the right questions. I hope you are open to hearing the right answers. As one of the co-vice chairman said at the meeting a week ago. As we grew up everything that wasn't solid land we called "Swamp.' We called the lagoon swamp, mangrove islands swamp, everything that you could not walk on we called swamp. We need to change that.



Harriette
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