UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
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The existing National Parks and Marine Protected Areas provide an excellent basis for conservation of important areas in BVI.  The Protected Areas System Plan 2007 - 2017 creates or refines National Parks, Marine Parks, Fisheries Protected Areas, Fisheries Priority Areas, Protected Landscapes of Seascapes and multiple management areas.  The system of protected areas has been defined to meet multiple needs, that is areas for strict protection, recreation, fishing, or a combinations of any of these activities. The system plan focuses on protection of critical habitats, such as coral reefs, seagrass beds, salt ponds, dry Caribbean forests and mangroves. The plan can be downloaded here

Some of the maps in the protected areas plan, showing existing (green) and proposed (brown) sites.  Top left: Anegada; top right:Great Thatch; bottom left: Beef Island and East Tortola; bottom right: Virgin Gorda and The Dogs


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