The Étang des Salines is located in the south of Martinique on the Sainte-Anne peninsula on the edge of the Trace des Caps hiking trail and close to the very busy Salines beach (background) and almost deserted Grande Terre des Salines beach (foreground). This site protected by the Ramsar Convention since 2008 has been equipped with a footbridge on stilts to allow hikers to discover and observe its avifauna. The pond is fed with calm and warm salt water by a canal that connects it to the ocean by crossing a submersible zone at the level of Anse à Prunes, a little further east. This inflow of water has allowed the development of a mangrove of black (Avicennia germinans) and red (Rhizophora mangle) mangroves trees, which notably shelter a whole population of shorebirds (small wading birds), little bitterns, great herons, and great egrets.