Grenadas protected areas for sale

[KarenS]

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: The Grenadian government has passed an amendment to the Grenada National Parks and Protected Areas Act, giving the governor general the right to sell national parks land (and other protected areas) to private developers.

This move has been precipitated by the proposed Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts development at Mount Hartman -- Hog Island. The amendment to the National Parks Act allows the sale of the Mount Hartman National Park -- the last stronghold of the Critically Endangered Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsi) -- for a massive hotel and villa complex.

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