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Barbuda's ecologically rich lands are being seized destroyed by billionaire developers building enclaves for the ultra-wealthy. Right now, the region’s last internationally significant wetland is being converted into a golf course. GLAN are helping Barbudans to protect their land and it's ecology
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Situation
The Caribbean island of Barbuda, its wetlands, dunes, and communal land tenure system are under attack. Not only by climate change, but by policy makers and foreign investors who are seizing the land and decimating the rich ecosystem to create a billionaire's luxury playground. Acres of pristine forest have been cleared to make way for an international airport for private jets to land while Codrington Lagoon National Park, internationally protected wetlands is being turned into a golf course.
Solution
The under-resourced, small-island, local communities face an enormous fight against wealthy US developers. GLAN is helping Barbudan communities in the fight to protect their land by developing a legal strategy to resist further land grabs and protect the traditional communal land tenure system which has protected the ecological character of the island for the past 100 years.