News from Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba
Kralendijk - The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) initiated its first Junior Ranger Annual Exchange event on 25-29 October 2019, as part of the new approach for the cooperation between the park management organizations in the six islands of the Dutch … [Read more] about DCNA connecting children to nature within the Dutch Caribbean
Kralendijk - Washington Slagbaai Park will be reopening its doors full time as of July 1st 2020. It will be open Monday to Friday from 8AM to 5PM. Two of the houses, Mangasina and Kas di Noord will be available for rent as well, after having received a … [Read more] about Bonaire Washington Slagbaai Park reopens
Kralendijk - Stinapa is so proud of these young men and women for all that they do to preserve our nature. They are curious to learn, smart individuals with a bright future ahead of them. On June 15th, they had their first parent meeting for the Junior … [Read more] about Bonaire Junior Rangers Graduated
Kralendijk - The Junior Rangers and staff teamed up with Blue Destination Bonaire to form a mass clean-up with One hour Clean Up Power at Playa Grandi in Rincon. In just one hour they were able to collect a great amount of trash from this coast because of … [Read more] about Keeping Bonaire blue
Kralendijk - In honor of World Ocean Day, the STINAPA Junior Rangers went on a dive to clean up as much trash, plastic, car tires etc. as they could. Governor Edison Rijna, Deputy Elvis EJ Tijn Asjoe, DCNA, Marine Park Rangers, Nature Unit, and other … [Read more] about World Oceans Day Clean up in Bonaire
Kralendijk - Nature Park Manager STINAPA has recently executed some maintenance on Klein Bonaire. According to to STINAPA one of the more worrying trends observed is the amount of sand found which was contaminated by charcoal. anticipated. STINAPA is … [Read more] about Amount of Contaminated Sand found on Klein Bonaire ‘worrisome’
Kralendijk - Marine Park Rangers have been patrolling more extensively on land and in the marine park. Some examples are people who have been caught spearfishing illegally. They also caught prohibited species, in this picture you can see there are a variety of … [Read more] about Bonaire Marine Park Rangers patrolling
Kralendijk - Biologists Roxanne and Caren, working together with WEB are monitoring the impact of increasing freshwater production on the reefs in front of the desalination plant in Hato. Once a month they do a dive. During these dives they lay out coral … [Read more] about Monitoring Bonaire Water quality
Oranjestad, St. Eustatius - Using DNA-and morphological analysis, a team from Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON) and Naturalis have discovered that the Leeward Blindsnake is a native species to the island of St. Eustatius. … [Read more] about Leeward Blindsnake native to St. Eustatius
Kralendijk - A 2018 study of mosquito populations on the islands of Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius documented eleven different species, including two new species for Sint Maarten, a number of which are known to spread mosquito-borne diseases. … [Read more] about Eleven Species of Mosquitoes found on Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten