The students put up the barriers at Anse Royale beach

Wild Life Club members from a secondary school have erected barriers at Anse Royale to keep cars from damaging the environment along the beach.

According to Wild Life Club leader Mariette Esparon, the students at Anse Royale Secondary were complaining of motor vehicles parking too close to the beach.  The students requested that beach barriers be put up at the small beach located just opposite the school.

Staff from the Coastal Zone Management Unit and the Forestry Section from the Ministry of Environment on Friday assisted the students with installing the barriers.

Coastal zone management officer, Alain Decomarmond, said the ministry had a general programme of installing barriers at certain beaches.

“Such barriers are put in place to control the parking distance of vehicles at beaches and to protect the young coastal vegetation planted on beaches,” he said. 

“Vehicles parking too close or on the beach system damage the beach profile and its vegetation, eventually leading to beach erosion,” he said.

Mr Decomarmond said the ministry congratulated the club members for such a thoughtful initiative, and reassured them that the ministry will be intensifying their efforts to put in place even more of the barriers to protect fragile beach systems.

He also took the opportunity to launch a special appeal to the general public not to remove or damage such structures, nor park on beach systems if parking near a beach.

Wild life Club members of Anse Royale secondary said that their campaign of protecting their environment did not end there, as they have planned more projects for other areas in the district.

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