A recently published study about the long term benefits of permanent conservation endowments includes case studies and examples of best practice from Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean. I’ve embedded the full paper below, and here’s one of the relevant excerpts: A remarkable thing has occurred with most of the Conservation Trust Funds we have observed. [...]
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Vacancy: Faculty position, CIEE Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation Programme, Bonaire
There is a vacant faculty position at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Research Station in Bonaire: The CIEE Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation Program in Bonaire (Dutch Caribbean), a study abroad program for upper level, undergraduate students, is hiring a full time faculty for a 1 year period (31 July 2011 – 31 [...]
New Caribbean species: the Bonaire banded box jellyfish, aka Tamoya ohboya
Ten years after the first recorded sighting of the Bonaire banded box jellyfish, it has been formally recognised as a new species, with the name Tamoya ohboya. The Smithsonian Institution reports: The words “box jelly” may bring to mind something sweet and tasty, but the banded box jelly of Bonaire is a highly venomous jellyfish [...]
Inspections in Bonaire find oil tankers “possibly” failing to meet international standards
Troubling results from recent ship inspections in Bonaire: Last week Traffic and Transport Inspection (IVW) has put another ship [not the one pictured] on chains in Bonaire after it had registered too many deficiencies. At the end of November 2010 another ship was also put on the chains. In that instance it pertained a ship [...]
Bonaire’s marine environment receives accolades from scuba divers
Readers of Scuba Divins magazine have voted Bonaire as the top Caribbean dive destination when it comes to marine health. The Bonaire National Marine Park has won numerous awards and honors. But the praise that speaks loudest is that it’s the example by which other marine parks around the world have been modeled. Bonaire’s reefs [...]
National Geographic blog highlights turtle tracking in Bonaire
Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire has been featured on the National Geographic “Inside Wild” blog: Sea turtles can swim hundreds – and sometimes thousands – of miles to reach different areas of marine habitat. Tracking this highly migratory species by satellite is shedding light on sea turtles’ unique feeding locations and pathways of movement. Sea Turtle [...]
Climate change threat to Dutch Caribbean islands
A recently published report from the Dutch Ministry of Environment assesses the threat that climate change poses for the islands of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba: Climate change poses a severe threat for the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of the Dutch BES islands (Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius) and the totality of benefits and services [...]
Queen Conch restoration project in Bonaire
STiNAPA Bonaire launches a Queen Conch Restoration Project in Lac Bay. Lac is the largest bay in the Dutch Caribbean and is not only a critical habitat for Bonaire and the region, but is also a RAMSAR site, recognized globally as wetlands of special significance. Lac is home to three globally endangered species: the Green [...]
Mapping the Saba Bank
Kai Wulf of the Saba Conservation Foundation reports on a recent research diving expedition on the Saba Bank: From November 12th to 22nd , a team of eight scientists and conservation practitioners from Holland, Martinique, Bonaire and Saba came together on Saba for a mapping expedition to the Saba Bank. The expedition forms part of [...]
Internship opportunity: coral reef ecology in Bonaire
Found via the Society for Conservation Biology: Opportunity Description Job Title: Coral Reef Ecology Internships Spring 2011 Organization: CIEE Research Station Bonaire Location: Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles Application deadline: 30 November 2010 Website: www.cieebonaire.org Description: The CIEE Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation Program in Bonaire is a study abroad program for undergraduate students. The Tropical Marine [...]
