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Nevis Peak National Park and Camps River Protected Area Literature ORGANIZATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES ( OECS) SECRETARIAT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UNIT ( ESDU) PROTECTING THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN REGION’ S BIODIVERSITY ( PERB) PROJECT Literature Review for the Proposed Nevis Peak National Park and Camps River Watershed Area FEDERATION OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS JUNE 2009 Cover Photo: View from Round Hill looking SE toward Nevis Peak across the Camps Ghaut Proposed Protected Area ORGANISATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES (OECS) SECRETARIAT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UNIT (ESDU) PROTECTING THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN REGION’S BIODIVERSITY (PERB) PROJECT MINISTRY OF PHYSICAL PLANNING, INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES NEVIS ISLAND ADMINISTRATION Literature Review for the Proposed Nevis Peak National Park and Camps River Watershed Area PREPARED BY: Tortola, British Virgin Islands St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Washington, DC June 2009 This activity is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the donor agencies supporting the activity or of the OECS Secretariat. Literature Review for the Proposed Nevis Peak National Park and Camps River Watershed Area For this review, Island Resources Foundation: A. Conducted a literature review to obtain existing information on the biodiversity within the proposed protected area; B. Re-surveyed local researchers, guides and locally linked students about studies of resource issues conducted on Nevis in recent years; and C. Prepared and submitted to the Department of Physical Planning and OECS/ESDU/PERB a report on the finding of the literature review, including an annotated bibliography of pertinent documents. This material is presented in two separate sections. The first section is the books, manuscripts, maps, guides, photographs and tapes listed below that are available in Nevis, mostly at the facilities of the Nevis Historical and Cultural Society. If numbered they are available at the Archives of Nevis History at the Bellvue Museum Building next to Government House. The second section is the list of Selected References used in the course of researching the overall project and the Terrestrial Biodiversity Inventory and Status Assessment for the Proposed Nevis Peak Protected Area specifically. Some of these documents may not be available on Nevis. island resources Page 1 FOUNDATION June 2009 Literature Review: Nevis Peak Park and Camps River Watershed RESOURCES AVAILABLE ON NEVIS Abbreviations: NHCS=Nevis Historical and Conservation Society ESA=Environmental Study Area Biodiversity Shelf Author(s) Date Title: Sub-title Publisher Place Subject No. Barnes M.J.C. 1996 A Provisional Guide to Some Common Moths of the Eastern Biodiversity Caribbean. 2nd edition Beard, J.S. 1948 Forestry Memoirs # 21 Islands, pp. 7-104 Oxford University Press Biodiversity Beekeeping Congress 2000 Proceedings of the Second Caribbean Beekeeping Congress Gingerland, Nevis Biodiversity Bond, James 1988 Birds of the West Indies Collins, Reprint with Biodiversity Revisions Butler, Paul March Conservation Education for Nevis Nevis Historical and Nevis Biodiversity 1993 Conservation Society Caribbean Ornithology 2006 The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, Vol 19 No. 1 & 2 Biodiversity Eckert, Karen, Editor 1992 Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for St. Kitts-Nevis Widecast Biodiversity Helmer, Eileen H., et al. 2008 Land Cover and Forest Formation Distribution for St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Caribbean Journal of Biodiversity Eustatius, Grenada and Barbados Science Honychurch, Penelope N. 1987 Caribbean Wildplants and their Uses MacMillian Press Ltd. Biodiversity 87-6. Hutton, C. O. 1965 The Mineralogy & Petrology of Nevis. Leeward Isl. B.W.I. 4th Caribbean Biodiversity A 2.56 Geological Conference Hutton, C.O. 1978 Overseas Geology & Mineral Resources # 52: The Petrology of Nevis, Her Majesty's London Biodiversity A 2.15 Leeward Islands, West Indies Stationery Office Paul Hilder 1989 The Birds of Nevis Nevis Historical and Nevis Biodiversity Conservation Society Pemberton, E. Lemuel 1985 A Study of the Water Resources of Nevis St.Kitts-Nevis Teachers Biodiversity A 2.64 College Raffaele, Herbert et al. 1998 A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies Princeton University Biodiversity 98.87 Press Robinson, David & Jennifer 2000 The Natural History of the Island of Nevis Nevis Historical and Nevis Biodiversity Lowery Conservation Society Robinson, David R. 1988 "A Survey of the Natural Resources of Nevis and Recommendations Nevis Historical and Biodiversity for Action" Conservation Society (unpublished,) Smith, William 1745 A Natural History of Nevis and the rest of the English Leeward J. Bentham Cambridge, UK Biodiversity A 2.13 Charibee Islands in America van Halewyn, Ruud & Robert 1984 The Status and Conservation of Seabirds in the Caribbean Biodiversity Norton Whitaker, M.C. 1997 Medicinal Plants of St. Kitts-Nevis, Part I and Part II College of Further St Christopher Biodiversity 94.57. Education Heritage Society Willmore, P.L. 1950 "The Earthquake Series of St.Kitts Nevis, 1950-5l" Nature 169, 770-2 Biodiversity A 2.58 Young,R, T. Sharbel, G. Linton 1988 Preliminary Report-Nevis Expedition-Flora & Fauna Survey NHCS Biodiversity A 2.143 Page 2 island resources June 2009 FOUNDATION Literature Review: Nevis Peak Park and Camps River Watershed Shelf Author(s) Date Title: Sub-title Publisher Place Subject No. ESA 1991 Ecological Report on Bath Bog - Gallows Bay Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Bermingham, J 1990 Monkey Study at Golden Rock Estate Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Monzac, A. 1989-91 Wetlands in Nevis Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Owen, P. 1992 Vegetation Analysis of the Bath Bog Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Rodrigues, D. 1990 A survey of the Dominant Flora in three Wetland habitat on Nevis Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis ESA undated Ecological Report on Hamilton Mountain Trail Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis ESA undated Ecological Report on Golden Rock Archives Box A NHCS St. Kitts & Nevis Box A Collection Rodrigues D. 1990 The Vegetation Zones of Nevis, W.I Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Sharbel, T. 1988 Reptile & Amphibian Survey for Nevis Expedition Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Beaulieu, J. 1990 Survey of Marine Life, Coral Communities and Coastal Features of Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Nevis Kitts & Nevis Rodriques, D 1990 A Survey of the Dominant Flora in Three Wetlands Habitat on Nevis Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Unnamed 1990 Executive Summary of Nevis Coastal Marine Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis The Natural Vegetation of the Windward & Leeward Islands Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis A 2.11 The Geology of St. Kitts & Nevis W.I. Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Almond Gardens Marine ESA Report Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A Kitts & Nevis Notes on Species Diversity and Habitat Specificity in the Orchidaceae Archives Box A NHCS Biodiversity: St. Box A of Nevis. Kitts & Nevis Environmental Assessment report on Pinney's Estate Dev. Plan Archives Box A Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis 1990 Avifauna Description for Selected Regions on Nevis, W.I. Archives Box A Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis 1987 The National Conservation and Environment Protection Act Archives Box A Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis Denoncourt, M. 1990 Population Estimates and Habitat Descriptions for the Nearshore Archives Box A Biodiversity: St. Marine of Nevis Kitts & Nevis Ecological Report on ESA Archives Box A Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis 1991 A Coastal Monitoring Project for Nevis(UNDP & NHCS) Archives Box A Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis Coastal Development Control in Nevis Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis Analysis of Beach Change in Nevis, 1988-1991 (5 copies) Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis island resources Page 3 FOUNDATION June 2009 Literature Review: Nevis Peak Park and Camps River Watershed Shelf Author(s) Date Title: Sub-title Publisher Place Subject No. Evaluation of the UNESCO Coastal Monitoring Programmes in Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Dominica, Nevis & St. Kitts (3 copies) Kitts & Nevis ‘1991-92 Evaluation of the UNESCO Coastal Monitoring Programme in the Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Lesser Antilles - Kitts & Nevis 1983 Coastal Erosion in St. Kitts & Nevis Vol. 2 - 1990 -1991 Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis The Impact on Marine Environment of St. Kitts & Nevis from the Oil spill Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. of the Barge Vestabella Kitts & Nevis Cambers, G. Photographs of Coastal damage in Nevis following Hurricane Hugo, Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Sept, 1989 Kitts & Nevis Cambers, Dr. G. Nevis Coastal Monitoring Programme Field Manual Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis Cambers, Gillian Management of Coastal Resources in St. Kitts & Nevis #3 Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis Management of Coastal Resources in St. Kitts & Nevis #2 (3 Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. copies) Kitts & Nevis Marine Pollution Prevention, Control & Response in St. Kitts & Nevis, Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. 1984 Kitts & Nevis Environment & Coastal Resources, 1990 Archives Box B Biodiversity: St. Kitts & Nevis
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