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PLH accused of ‘greenwashing amid environmental destruction’
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“They don’t even know what they have destroyed and that is the awful thing about it,” remarked marine biologist John Mussington, as he recalled the apparent destruction of sand dunes and wildlife habitats at Palmetto Point, Barbuda.
Mussington is one of a number of Barbudans opposed to the environmental degradation that they say the Peace, Love and Happiness (PLH) development is likely to cause by constructing a golf course spanning hundreds of acres on protected land within the Codrington Lagoon National Park.
He claimed the developer is destroying turtle nesting sites, disturbing natural habitats and uprooting important plant species and organisms in order to build their luxury project.
Open Global Rights) write, “Barbuda is a microcosm of larger trends and issues from climate-induced displacement and disaster capitalism, to the greenwashing of policies that undermine climate resilience.”
“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet,” the sci-fi writer William Gibson has famously said. For a peek into the future of human rights in a warming planet, there are few better places than the small Caribbean island of Barbuda. Barbuda is a microcosm of larger trends and issues – from climate-induced displacement and disaster capitalism, to greenwashing of policies that undermine climate resilience. If this future is to be avoided in Barbuda and elsewhere, the world must pay close attention to current developments in the island whose stunning calm and beauty made it Princess Diana’s favorite vacation spot and inspired Robert de Niro to call his planned luxury tourism project there, “Paradise Found.”
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On September 6th, 2017 Hurricane Irma touched down on the island of Barbuda. Over 90% of the island’s buildings were damaged and the 1800 residents who call the island home had to be evacuated to Antigua. By February of 2019, with rebuilding efforts ongoing, still only 75% of the island’s residents had returned. In the time that has passed since, some residents of the island have begun to accuse outside organizations, celebrities, and philanthropists of “land grabs.”
In 2007, the creation of the “Barbuda Land Act of 2007” established that the residents of the island needed to provide consent for any major development to take place. A big change occurred to the act in 2016, however, one year before Hurricane Irma changed everything. In the 2016 amendment to the act, the definition of a “major development” wa
Int’l lawyers request investigation of wetland destruction on Barbuda
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By Elesha George
The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) has submitted a complaint to the RAMSAR Secretariat, requesting that the body investigates the destruction of wetlands in the Codrington Lagoon National Park on Barbuda.
GLAN, in a release, said it submitted evidence of the destruction to the Geneva-based body that oversees the implementation of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance to which Antigua and Barbuda is a signatory.
The group has asked the secretariat to urgently intervene by arranging an independent advisory mission to visit and advise on ongoing and future threats to the protected wetlands.