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U.S. Virgin Islands 00802 ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING FOR DEVELOPMENT Two-Year "APC" Project Completed inUSVI For over two years, the Island Re sources Foundation has worked with the Government of the Virgin Islands to draft management plans for sites selected as "areas of particular concern" (APCs) under the Ter ritory's Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Legislation. The task was completed in September of this year with IRF's delivery to Government of plan ning reports for each of 18 APCs. A MESSAGE FROM IRF's PRESIDENT It is a pleasure to provide our readers with the 1993 edition of the Foundation's Annual Report. As always, the year was busy, diversified, and challenging. It marked the completion of important planning documents for critical development areas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the launching of a biodiversity compo nent to our ongoing Development Program for Eastern Caribbean Environmental NGOs, the preparation of two new Environmental Profiles (for Montserrat and Anguilla), and the start-up of a three-year cooperative resource management pro gram for the Virgin Islands (funded by the MacArthur Founda tion). We have even ventured afar from our Caribbean base to work with an emerging environmental NGO in the West African dual-island state of Sao Tome and Principe. The coming year offers new promise for the small islands which are the focus of IRF's work, as they, in turn, become the center of a UN-sponsored, two-week Global Conference on the Sus tainable Development of Small Island Developing States (to be convened in Barbados from April 25 - May 6, 1994). The meeting is the first worldwide assemblage of nations focusing on sustainable development since the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is looked upon as a testing ground for im plementing key aspects of the action plan approved at Rio, and IRF will be monitoring developments closely. As Island Resources Foundation moves ahead in this its third decade of service to island environments and island communi ties, we thank all of our supporters who share our enthusiasm and optimism about insular places and the peoples who inhabit them. IRF would not be here 21 years after its launching in 1972 without your assistance. Edward L. Towle, President It was in 1991, over a decade after adoption of a Virgin Islands' Coastal Man agement Program, that the Government's De partment of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) first approached IRF to undertake preparation of 18 APC management plans. The process for designating areas within the coastal zone which are of "particular con cern" was initially established in 1979. Preliminary plans (continued APC PLANS, page 2) BUILDING A BIODIVERSITY CONSTITUENCY NGO Partners Assume Leadership Role Conserving the diversity of life found on our planet ~ bio diversity — has be come the focus of global efforts to un derstand and protect the environment. The sense of immediacy brought on by the fi nality and irreversibil ity of species extinc tion has made bio diversity into a catch word that did not even exist a decade ago. Contrary to crit icism that it represents just the latest in a long line of short-lived fads, biodiversity con servation has evolved as a rationale and needed focus for the mandate to "save the environment." The terminology may change, but we can expect the conceptual basis to guide our development for the foreseeable future. Within this context, biodiversity concerns have come to play an in creasingly important role in IRF's 7-year-old Institutional (continued BIODIVERSITY, page 4) In addition to its headquarters office in the Virgin Islands, ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION maintains a NGO Program Office in Antigua (P.O. Box 103, St. John's, Antigua; Tel./Fax: 809/460-1740; Bruce J. Horwith, Program Director) and an office in Washington, D.C. (1718 P St., Northwest, Suite T4, Washington, D.C. 20036 USA; Tel.: 202/265-9712; Fax: 202/232-0748; Jean-Pierre Bade, Staff Representative). ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION APC PLANS (continuedfrom page 1) ... for the majority of the APCs were prepared by Government's CZM staff in the early- to mid-1980s, but this initial effort was never finished, nor were the preliminary plans re leased for public review. Under increasing pressure from the U.S. Government to complete the plans, DPNR initially asked IRF to prepare five "pilot" plans, a number which was later expanded to include the full 18 APC sites. Chief IRF planner for the pilot project was Adrian Schottroff, who left IRF in mid-1992 for a new post at DPNR. Richard Volk, a former coastal planner in American Samoa, joined IRF's staff in September of 1992 to assume leadership for preparation of the final 13 plans. The time frame set for the pro ject was extraordinary. After years of delay and postponement by Gov ernment, IRF was given a little more than 12 months to produce manage ment plans for the 13 sites not in cluded in the 1991-92 "pilot pro ject". In this effort, Volk was as sisted by a small staff at IRF, in cluding IRF president Ed Towle, and environmental technicians Kathleen Strub and Christopher Biagioli. Additional support was provided by THE APC PROJECT IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP WITH A PRIVATE SECTOR NGO TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Richard Volk, IRF senior resource planner who directed the APC project from 1992-93. Richard came to IRF after several years of coastal zone management experi ence in the South Pacific. DPNR's CZM staff under the leader ship of Mrs. Joan Harrigan-Farrelly and the Marine Advisory Services Program at the University of the Virgin Islands' Eastern Caribbean Center. Following a series of public hearings on each management plan, the draft documents were officially submitted by DPNR in October to the Virgin Islands CZM Commis sion, where they received unanimous approval. They will now be presented to the V.I. Legislature and the Territory's Governor for final review. Preparation of the APC man agement plans is an important step forward in the evolution of Virgin Islands coastal management plan ning. While recognizing that the APC project was largely driven by an external deadline imposed by the U.S. Government and that, as a con sequence, public involvement and in teragency input were reduced, IRF believes that the process has served to refocus interest on coastal plan ning issues. Each APC plan synthe sizes an abundance of useful infor mation on a broad range of planning and management concerns relative to each site. Taken together, the APC plans provide a strong foundation for establishing more consistent, legally supported guidelines to direct future development of critical coastal areas in the Virgin Islands. TWO NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILES COMPLETED In late 1992, two Caribbean islands - Montserrat and Anguilla — were selected for preparation of Environmental Pro files. Both efforts, part of more comprehensive environmental management programs in each Territory, were funded by the United Nations Development Program. As in the case of six earlier Environmental Profile Pro jects completed in 1991 by IRF and the Caribbean Conservation Association, Island Resources Foundation was asked to provide technical assistance and support for the projects in Montserrat and Anguilla. Memorandums of Understanding were signed by IRF and the Governments of each island, and an environmental NGO was selected for local project coordination — the National Trust in Montserrat and the Archaeological and Historical Soci ety in Anguilla. The two Profiles (completed and distributed in pre-print form in 1993) focus less on detailed background information than did their six predecessors. Rather, the focus in Montserrat and Anguilla was on identifying critical environmental issues within key environment/development sectors and providing an action agenda for change in environmental policies and resource management programs. At the present time, funding is not available to publish these Profiles. However, anticipating immediate interest in the documents, IRF can provide bound photocopies, at cost (US$23. for Montserrat and US$25. for Anguilla, plus postage and handling). Send pre-paid requests to IRF's Washington, D.C. Publications Office. 1993 ANNUAL REPORT THREE-YEAR GRANT APPROVED BY Mac ARTHUR FOUNDATION The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has approved a three-year grant to Island Resources Foundation, in support of a collaborative public/private sector effort to develop integrated conservation and resource management programs in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The MacArthur grant focuses on further development of the Virgin Islands Resource Management Coopera tive (VIRMC), a unique institutional vehicle created in the mid-1980s with the assistance of the V.I. National Park and approximately a dozen public and pri vate sector research and resource management institutions based in or carrying out programs in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Behind the effort to reestablish VIRMC lies the premise that building insti tutional capacity for teamwork and interdisciplinary cooperation in pursuit of common objectives is a difficult task. Even more difficult is identifying appropriate techniques that link or transfer skills and competence among and between institutions with related, generally compatible environmental program agendas. Nevertheless, it is an assumption of this new program that there is sufficient institutional capacity, interest and concern in the Virgin Islands for establishing a coordinated team approach aimed at addressing the difficult en vironment/development challenges now before the Territory. WHAT IS IRF ? For more than two decades, Island Re sources Foundation (IRF) has sought to promote and secure funding for programs that both protect and enhance the devel opment options of small islands. Within its flexible organizational framework, the Foundation combines many disciplines, people, and institutional partners in an at tempt to understand the peculiar con straints of insular environments, to define the special problems and concerns of those living within insular communities, and to identify workable solutions that re main sensitive to insular perspectives. IRF is a non-profit, unendowed, operating foundation that funds its activities through a combination of grants, contracts and un restricted donations. It undertakes donor- supported technical assistance programs, as well as resource planning and R&D contract work as a public service for gov ernments and international agencies and for established non-governmental organi zations. When speaking recently about the three-year program to build the Virgin Islands Resource Management Cooperative, IRF president Ed Towle had this to say. "We are not going to build VIRMC like an architect designs a monumental building - with great attention to detail and elaborate advanced plans and a fixed form. Rather, we are going to focus on an institutional framework for cooperative community service, education, research, and human resource development. Such a model implies sensitivity to local needs (which are dynamic and changing); it requires co-opting existing conventional wisdom, common sense and lessons learned; and it calls for using existing institutions as starting points while, at the same time, requiring creative responses to new opportunities and challenges from within the Territory and the region." KeveJ Lindsay of Antigua, 1993 recipient of IRF's Euan P. McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award. The Euan McFarlane Award was established by IRF in 1987 to provide recognition of West Indians under the age of 35 who have demonstrated outstanding environmental leadership. The Award includes an unrestricted $1,000 cash gift which is f u n d e d f r o m a n e n d o w m e n t p r o v i d e d b y L a u r a n c e S . Rockefeller. Mr. Kevel Lindsay of Antigua, the 1993 McFarlane Award recipient, joins prior honorees from St. Lucia (Yves Renard and Mervin Williams), from Dominica (Ronald Charles and Arlington James), and from Barbados (Alissandra Cummins). Mr. Lindsay, a Government forester in Antigua, has emerged as a leader within the country's most prominent environmental NGO, the Environmental Awareness Group (known as EAG). He has worked closely with that organization in designing and im plementing agroforestry and biodiversity programs. Both efforts have been important in encouraging improved partnerships be tween public and private sector institutions in Antigua. At the left, Kevel is pictured at Antigua's Waitings Reservoir, site of a new conservation and reforestation project sponsored by the Government of Antigua, EAG, IRF, and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION BIODIVERSITY (continued from page 1) ... Development Program for Eastern Caribbean NGOs. During 1993, IRF and several of its NGO partners supported programs specifically designed to build local institutional capacity for maintaining and promoting the biological diversity of Caribbean islands. These efforts included: Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, two-year project funded by World Wildlife Fund-U.S. St. Christopher Heritage Society, one-year project funded by the Biodiversity Support Program Antigua Environmental Awareness Group, two-year project funded by the Moriah Fund with additional support from The Nature Conservancy Montserrat National Trust, two-year project funded by the Moriah Fund with additional support from The Nature Conservancy. Each biodiversity project is designed to raise the technical "literacy" of environmental NGOs and to upgrade NGO research skills for inventorying, evaluating, and monitoring environ mentally sensitive areas. Additionally, the projects focus on building a constituency for conserving the biological heritage of each participating island, through a variety of community out reach, educational, and public service activities. In encouraging and identifying opportunities for its NGO partners to take a lead on biodiversity, IRF is promoting what it has long maintained is an essential role for non-governmental organizations, namely, to collect, store, monitor, assess, and publicize information about critical natural resources. To this end, in 1994 IRF will expand its NGO biodiversity program to additional Eastern Caribbean countries, and has already received second-year funding from the Moriah Fund/Nature Conservancy and Further monies will be provided under a grant from the International Primary school children from St. Kitts visit one of five biodiversity sites studied by the St. Christopher Heritage Society. Educating students about the biodiversity values of study areas was a primary objective of the Society's year-long biodi versity project. the Biodiversity Support Program for this purpose. Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico. BOARD, STAFF NOTES Dr. LaVerne Ragster, director of the Eastern Caribbean Center at the University of the Virgin Islands, was elected to the IRF Board of Trustees at the Board's annual meeting in September. Mr. Richard Volk, IRF senior resource planner, re signed from the Foundation in November to assume a position as director of a four-year planning project for Corpus Christi, Texas (USA). Ms. Kathleen (Kammy) Strub, research assistant for the Virgin Islands APC project, returned to graduate school in September at the University of Texas. Ms. Linda (Rikki) Grober, IRF intern at the St. Christopher Heritage Society in St. Kitts, completed her Master's Degree in Environmental Management at Duke University and is now working with the Virgin Islands Na tional Park in St. John. MEMBERSHIPS and CONTRIBUTIONS Island Resources Foundation is a non-endowed, op erating foundation. It is tax-exempt under the laws of the United States, and contributions -- including memberships -- are tax deductible in the U.S. Both individual and institutional memberships are avail able in categories ranging from $25 - $500 for indi viduals and from $200 - $2,000 for institutions. The Foundation's headquarters office in the U.S. Virgin Islands would be happy to provide more in formation on ways you can support the work of the Foundation, either through cash gifts or through do nations of real property or other assets. 1993 ANNUAL REPORT OTHER INCOME (2.0%) _ MEMBERSHIPS ond DONATIONS (6.0%) VI GOVT. CONTRACTS (22.0%) USAID GRANT (25.0%) US GOVT. CONTRACTS (13.0% " NON-GOVT. CRANTS (15.0%) UNDP GRANT (17.0%) PARK PLANNING (JAMAICA) (9.0%) NGO PROGRAM (25.0% BIODIVERSITY PROG. (5.0%) ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILES (13.0%) ADMIN. & FUND RAIS'G. (29.0%) PROPERTY Ic EQUIP. (3.0%) VI PROGRAMS (16.0%) I N C O M E , ( • 4 6 6 , 4 8 2 . ) E X P E N S E S ( 4 4 6 0 , 6 6 5 . ) THE 1993 FISCAL YEAR AT A GLANCE IRFs PRESIDENT ON THE GO ... The year found IRF's president Ed Towle representing the Foundation, its programs, and its mission at a variety of forums and locales. Some of these included: - Speech on "Tourism and the Natural, Built and Cultural En vironment," presented at the Second Annual Caribbean Conference on Ecotourism held in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Speaker at a Leadership Conference on the Socio-economic Development and Carrying Capacity of Bonaire, Nether lands Antilles, co-sponsored by the Government and the Washington-based Partners for Livable Communities. Panel participant for an environment session at the annual Miami Conference on the Caribbean, sponsored by Caribbean/Latin American Action. IRF's conference room "in the mangroves" at the Foundation's St. Thomas headquarters. Pictured at a recent meeting of the execu tive committee of the Board of Trustees are (l-r) Henry Wheatley, vice president of the Board; Charles Consolvo, secretary; Judith Towle, treasurer; and Ed Towle, president. Presentation on "The Role of Non-governmental Organi zations" at a conference on Environmental Health and Sus tainable Tourism, held in the Bahamas and sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization. Member of the U.S. Delegation to UN Preparatory Com mittee (PrepCom) meeting held at UN Headquarters in New York in preparation for the 1994 Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island States. Participant at a planning meeting for Biosphere Reserves, held at Estes Park in the Rocky Mountains and sponsored by the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program. In June, under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency, Dr. Towle spent two weeks in Sao Tome and Principe, an island state located 200 kilometers off the coast of Gabon in west-central Africa. His assignment was to provide assistance to emerging environmental or ganizations in Sao Tome and to forge linkages between these groups and the environmental community in the U.S. and Caribbean. During the year, Towle also participated in several meetings of the board of the Caribbean Environment and Development Institute (CEDI), of which he is a founding member. A coalition of public and private in terests, CEDI was established in 1992 to promote en vironmentally sound development in the Wider Caribbean region. Based in Puerto Rico, CEDI's board members represent both conservation groups and indus try. Board president is Manuel Del Valle, president of Bacardi Rum. SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES - FOCUS OF 94 UN GLOBAL CONFERENCE Representatives from 41 small island states will meet in Barbados in 1994 to discuss sustainable development issues of particular concern to small islands. This will be the first UN meeting on sustainable development since the 1992 UN Conference on Environment end Development in Rio de Janeiro. The information below on the world community of small island states is taken from THE EARTH TIMES (August 30, 1993). WORLD NETWORK/ GROWING FORCE HAP BY ED HURAWMSKI ATLANTIC 1. Cape Verde Population 386.000; 247 per sq. mi. Art* 1.557 sq. mi., a bi! larger than Rhode Island. Birth rale 48 per 1,000. Ufr expectancy 59 m, 63 f. Uttracy 37% 2. Guinea-Bissau Population 1,023,000; 73 per sq. mi. Area 13,948 sq. mi., about (he size of Connecticut and New Hampshire combined. Birth rate 42 per 1,000. Lift expectancy 45 m. 48 f. Literacy 36% 3. Sao Tome and Principe Population 128,000; 344 per sq. mi. Area 372 sq mi., slightly larger than New York City. Birth rate 38 per 1,000. Lift expectancy n/a. Literacy. 50% CARIBBEAN 4. Antigua and Barbuda Population 64,000; 374 per sq. mi. Area 171 sq. mi. Birth rate 11 per 1,000. Uf« expectancy n/a. Uleraey 90% 5. Bahamas Population 251,000; 48 per sq. mi. Area 5.380 sq. mi., about the size of Connecticut. Birth rate 19 per 1.000. Lift expectancy 69 m. 76 f. Uttracy95% 6. Barbados Population 254.000; 1.530 per sq. mi. Area 166 sq. mi. Birthrate 16 per 1.000. Life expectancy 73 m, 77 f. Literacy 99% 7. Belize Population 228,000; 111 per sq. mi. Area 8.867 sq. mi. Birth rate 25 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy 67 m, 72 f. Literacy 93% 8. Cuba Population 10,732.000; 242 per sq. mi Area 44.218 sq. mi., nearly as large as Pennsylvania. Birth rate 18 per 1,000. Life expectancy 73 m. 78 (. Uleraey 98% 9. Dominica Population 86.000-, 2% per sq. mi. Area 290 sq. mi., about one-fourth the size of Rhode Island. Birth rale 26 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy 73 m. 79 f. Literacy 90% 10. Grenada Population 84.000; 654 per sq. mi. Area 133 sq. mi., twice the size of Washington, D.C. Birth rate 35 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy 69 m. 74 f. Uttracy 95% 11. Guyana Population 748,000; 9 per sq. mi. Area 83.000 sq. mi., the size of Idaho. Birth rale 23 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy 61 m. 64 f. Uleraey 95% 12. Jamaica Population 2.489,000; 556 per sq. mi. Area 4.232 sq. mi., slightly smaller than Connecticut. Birth rate 24 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy 72 m, 76 f. Uleraey 98% 13. St. Kitts and Nevis Population 40,293; 399 per sq, mi. Area 101 sq. mi. Birth rate 39 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy n/a. Uleraey 98% 14. St. Lucia Population 153,075; 643 per sq. mi. Area 238 sq. mi., about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Birth rale 31 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy 69 m. 74 f. Uleraey 78% 15. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Population 114,000; 760 per sq. mi. Area 150 sq. mi., about twice the size of Washington D.C. Birth rate 27 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy 69 m, 74 f, Uleraey 85% 16. Suriname Population 402.000; 126 per sq. mi. Area 63.037 sq. mi„ slightly larger than Georgia. Birth rale 27 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy 66 m. 71 f. Uleraey 65% 17. Trinidad and Tobago Population. 1.285.000; 648 per sq. mi. Area. 1.980 sq. mi., the size of Delaware. Birth rates, 21 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy, 68 m. 72 f. Uleraey. 97% INDIAN OCEAN 18. Comoros Population, 476.000; 568 per sq. mi. Area, 838 sq. mi., half the size of Delaware. Birth rate, 47 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy, 54 m. 58 f Uteracy, 15% 19. Maldives Population. 226,000; 1,965 per sq. mi. Area. 115 sq. mi., twice the size of Washington D.C. Birth rale. 47 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy. 61 m. 65 f. Uttracy. 93% 20. Mauritius Population. 1.081.900; 1.368 per sq. m Area. 790 sq. mi., about the size of Rhode Island. Birth rale. 19 per 1.000. Life expectancy. 61 m. 65 f. Uteracy. 93% 21. Seychelles Population. 68.000.397 per sq. mi. Area. 171 sq.mi. Birth rait. 23 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy. 65 m, 71 f. Literacy, 80% MEDITERRANEAN 22. Cyprus Population, 708.00ft 194 per sq. mi. Area. 3.572 sq. mi., smaller than Connecticut. Birthrate. 18 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy, 74 m, 80 f. Uttracy, 95% 23. Malta Population. 354,000; 2.901 per sq. mi. Area. 122 sq. mi., twice the size of Washington. Birth rate. 14 per 1.000. Ufe eipectancy. 74 m, 79 f. Uttracy, 25% PACIFIC 24. Cook Islands* Population. 17,185; 31 per sq. mi. Area, 93 sq. mi. Birth rale.15 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy, 72 m, 78 f. Uteracy, 99% 25. Federated States of Micronesia Population. 111.000; 411 per sq.mi. Area. 270 sq. mi. Birth rate. 34 per 1,000. Ufe eipectancy. 68 m. 73 f. UUr.cy.90% 26. Fiji Population, 744.000; 105 per sq. mi. Area, 7,056 sq. mi., the size of Massachusetts. Birth rate, 26 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy, 62 m. 67 f. Uteracy, 85% 27. Kiribati* Population. 71,000; 266 per sq. mi. Area. 266 sq. mi., slightly smaller than New York City. Birth rale. n/a. Ufe txptclaney, rVa. Uttracy, 90% 28. Marshall Islands Population. 49.000; 697 per sq. mi. Area. 70 sq.mi. Birth rale. 47 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy, 61 m. 64 f. Uteracy, 86% 29. Nauru* Population, 9,333; 1.166 per sq. mi. Area, 8 sq. mi. Birth rait. 19 per 1.000. lift expectancy, n/a. Uteracy, 99% 30. Papua New Guinea Population. 3,913.000; 21 per sq. mi. Area, 178,260 sq. mi., slightly larger than California. Birth rate. 34 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy. 55 m. 56 f. Uteracy. 52% 31. Samoa Population. 190.000; 167 per sq. mi. Area, 1,113 sq. mi, Ihc size of Rhode island. Birth rale. 34 per 1.000, Ufe expectancy. 64 m, 69 f. Uttracy, 90% 32. Solomon Islands Population, 347,000; 32 per sq. mi. Area. 10,640 sq. mi., slightly larger than Maryland. Birth rate. 41 per 1.000. Ufe eipectancy, 67 m, 72 f. Uteracy, 60% 33. Tonga* Population. 102.000; 377 per sq. mi. Area. 270 sq. mi., smaller than New York City. Birth rate. 27 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy 65 m. 70 f. Uteracy. 99% 34. Tuvalu* Population, 9,317; 931 per sq. mi. Area, 10 sq. mi., less than one-half the size of Manhattan. Birth rale. 29 per 1,1100. Ufe expectancy. 60 m, 63 f. Uteracy, 96% 35. Vanuatu Popufition, 170,000; 29 per sq. mi. Area. 5,700 sq.mi. Birth rate, 37 per 1,000. Ufe expectancy. 67 m, 72 f. Uttracy, 90% SOUTH CHINA SEA 36. Singapore Population. 2,756.000; 12_303 per sq. mi. Area. 224 sq. mi., smaller than New York City. Birth rale. 18 per 1.000. Ufe expectancy, 72 m, 74 f. UUT«y,87% OBSERVERS' 37. American Samoa Population, 46,773; Area, 77 sq. mi. Birth rate, n/a. Ufe expectancy, n/a. Uteracy, n/a. 38. Guam Population, 133,152; 631.6 per sq.mi. Area, 209 sq. mi. Birth rale, n/a. Ufe eipectancy, a/a. Uteracy, n/a. 39. Netherlands Antilles Population. 187.000; 485.7 per sq. mi. Area. 385 sq. mi. Birth rate, n/a. Ufe expectancy, n/a. Uteracy, n/a. 40.Niue Population, 2^00; 25 per sq. mi. Area, 100 sq. mi. Birth rale, n/a. Ufe eipectancy, n/a. Uteracy, n/a. 41. US Virgin Islands Population, 101,809; 748.6 per sq. mi. Area, 133 sq. mi. Birth rate, n/a. Ufe expectancy, n/a. Uteracy. n/a. -EorTED by Lisa Yasuitiku