Many of the most important ongoing works of environmentalism are not obvious. A Green Certificate award for the protection of biodiversity is being set up by the National Trust. Guinea fowl , once plentiful but hunted to extinction, are being privately reared and put back in the wild. At Sonesta Beach, indigenous plants and animals will be reintroduced to a long-negelected salt pond on the property. Issue of the moment is admitting cruise ships .
Environmentalists point to the damage even several hundred tourists can do to a beach.
Having trashed other islands, they say, these Polluting hedonists need new worlds to destroy. The economic benefits may be stretched by a whopping head tax and imposing limits on how many boat-day people can come ashore. Caribbean cruise ships are, often as not, floating cities with populations of 2000 and more. The roads are good on Anguilla, and there isn't a whole lot of traffic. Top speed is 30 mph.