St. Lucia is

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St. Lucia is known for...
The flag of St. Lucia
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The Parrot
The growing of bananas
The Pitons
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The pointed shapes represent the Piton mountains.
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The black and white represents the people.
The blue represents the sea
The yellow represents the Caribbean sun.
The St. Lucian flag.
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.
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The Pitons The 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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Parrot Meet Jacquot . A very beautiful and
precious bird to the people of St. Lucia. It is
the national bird of St Lucia, Jacquot is its
nickname. Due to there being very few of these
birds it is now a protected species.
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• 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 1970s 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. Lucias national bird, the
  hunting of them was banned and a parrot reserve
  was established.

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