REMAR Project Launched: €5.5M to Restore Eastern Caribbean Mangroves

The Resilient Ecosystems through Mangrove Restoration (REMAR) project was virtually launched on April 11, 2026, a €5.5 million, five-year initiative to restore and protect mangrove ecosystems across five Caribbean territories: Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Martinique, and Guadeloupe. Led by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission in partnership with France's Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM), REMAR operates on three pillars: community-based restoration, scientific knowledge enhancement, and institutional capacity building. The initiative addresses compounding threats from climate change, intensifying hurricanes, and sargassum seaweed inundation that have accelerated mangrove loss across the Eastern Caribbean over the past decade.