Tourists can help protect St Lucia’s unique lizard | Letters

The news of a plan to destroy the Maria Islands’ unique species (Plan for £2bn St Lucia resort prompts fear for rare snake and lizard, 1 April) filled me with horror. Until now St Lucia has had an excellent record on wildlife conservation combined with tourist enjoyment of, and local pride in, its unique wildlife.In 1983 the St Lucia National Trust designated the Maria Islands a nature reserve and I was invited to make a study of the St Lucia whiptail lizard. The lizard lives on