Rise Up Sweet Island
Travel photographer (and Moleskinerie "network-er") Erik Gauger reports on "an epic struggle between a tiny island an an American golf course developer" in Guana Cay on his latest journey.
"Golf courses and coral reefs do not mix," writes Kristian Teleki, who directs the United Nations International Coral Reef Action Network. Director Teleki is referring to the audacious plan to build a giant golf course development on a tiny traditional cay, just seven miles long.
Teleki is not the only coral reef authority saying 'no' to the golf course on Guana Cay. In fact, the entire coral reef conservation world is shaking their heads at the strange events taking place on Guana Cay.
At center stage is a marine ecologist named Kathleen Sullivan Sealey. She was hired by the Discovery Land Company to help write an Environmental Impact Assessment of, and then work for, the golf course development company. Guana Cay is home to one of the West Indies richest and most beautiful reefs. It hosts networks of labyrinthine caverns draped in silversides, walls of coral, elegant sting rays and foraging hawksbill turtles."
Rise Up Sweet Island
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