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Inventory of herpetofauna
Late September was the occasion for the consulting firm, ARDOPS Environnement, to complete an inventory of herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) in Saint Martin. The goal was to consolidate the list of species present on the island, to localize the different species and define their status—indigenous or introduced—but also to identify the issues involved in the fight to regulation invasive species: Iguana iguana, red-footed tortoise, certain lizards—such as the anoli—as well as all of the frogs found in Saint Martin, and the snakes, including the grass snake of the Anguilla Bank, the European worm snake, and the corn snake. The introduction of non-native species represents one of the main causes of the destruction of the biodiversity, and in a more assertive way in insular territories.
