Rugby union in Martinique Rugby union in Martinique Rugby union in Martinique is a minor, but growing sport. The Comité Territorial de Rugby de la Martinique is a committee under the umbrella of the French Rugby Federation which is the governing body for rugby union within French Guiana. The committee is not affiliated to the IRB in its own right, but it is affiliated to NACRA, (formerly NAWIRA), which is the regional governing body for North America and the Caribbean. Rugby was introduced to Martinique by the French who colonised the area. More talented players tend to leave for Metropolitan France. There have been
Martinique amazon to Martinique and became extinct due to habitat loss as Martinique was cleared for agriculture. It has not been recorded since 1722. The Guadeloupe amazon (""A. violacea""), a similarly speculative "species", was said to inhabit the island of Guadeloupe. It is sometimes considered to be the same as ""A. martinicana"". However, it is more widely held to be related or identical to the imperial amazon ("A. imperialis"), the second "Amazona" species of Dominica. Martinique amazon The Martinique amazon ("Amazona martinicana") is a hypothetical extinct species of Caribbean parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is not known from any material remains,