The Pitons The growing of bananas

The flag of St. Lucia

The Parrot

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This is the flag of St Lucia. It is a very interesting flag as every part of it represents a part of St Lucia. Can you guess what each part represents?Click on the orange dots to check your answers.

The St. Lucian flag.

The blue represents the sea

The pointed shapes represent the Piton mountains.

The black and white represents the people.

The yellow represents the Caribbean sun.

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The PitonsThe pitons are a famous and very important national symbol for St Lucia. The twin peaks of the Piton mountains are about 800 metres

above sea level.

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ParrotMeet ‘Jacquot’ . A very beautiful and precious bird to

the people of St. Lucia. It is the national bird of St Lucia, Jacquot is it’s nickname. Due to there being very

few of these birds it is now a protected species.

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This is a drawing I did of the St. Lucia parrot.

The people of St. Lucia call this parrot by the nickname ‘Jacquot’. You will find them living in the rainforest on the Island.

In the 1970’s there were found to be only 100 parrots left living in the wild. The main causes of this were,

• people hunting the parrots

• wanting them for pets

• their natural habitat being destroyed.

To try and help, the St. Lucian Department of Forestry started an awareness project, this included work being done in schools. ‘Jacquot’ was then made St. Lucia’s national bird, the hunting of them was banned and a parrot reserve was established.

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BananasDo you have bananas in your home? Are they from St Lucia? Have a look when you get home. There is a good chance that they are bananas from St Lucia which are exported to Britain. Almost all the farmland there is used to grow bananas. Half the people earn their living from them. The

nickname for bananas in St. Lucia is ‘Green Gold’.

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