By: Ricky Taylor and Alan Whitfield (NRF-SAIAB Emeritus Chief Scientist and Honorary Research Associate)
St Lucia is progressing along a geological trajectory that has taken it from its ancestral form of a large deep estuary with major connections to the sea, to the shallow estuarine lake system it is at present, and onwards to a future state as a coastal floodplain containing freshwater pans and extensive swampland. Indications are that St Lucia is close to an ecological tipping point where it is about to change into the latter of these states, after which it will no longer function as an estuarine lake system. So writes Ricky Taylor and Alan Whitfield.
Read the full article featured in the March/April 2026 edition of The Water Wheel below.
