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 [...]
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dutch caribbean nature alliance launch new dutch website
The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) recently launched a new Dutch-language website at www.dcna/nl. From their English-language website: The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance is a regional network of protected areas set up to help and assist the park management organisations on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St Eustatius and St Maarten to better [...]
dutch caribbean nature alliance press trip 2010
A press corps of environmental writers and photographers from the Netherlands and Dutch Caribbean recently visited the islands of Saba and Sint Eustatius on a Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance sponsored trip. “The purpose of this visit was raise public awareness in the Netherlands about the biological wealth we have here in the Dutch Caribbean,” explains [...]
managing the environment in the dutch caribbean
On October 10, the Dutch Antilles will be dissolved and the islands of Bonaire, St. Eustatius (Statia), and Saba will become part of the Netherlands. This article from a Dutch university’s website considers the consequences of this geo-political transformation for environmental management: Dolfi Debrot is waiting with bated breath to find out how the Washington-Slagbaai [...]
Oil exploration on the Saba Bank
Permission has been given for oil exploration to begin on the Saba Bank: Exploration for crude oil on the Saba Bank, the largest submarine atoll (coral island) in the Atlantic Ocean, has moved a step forward with the board of Saba Bank Petroleum Resource N.V. taking the decision to allow Emerald Petroleum, a small oil [...]
Biodiversity of Saba Bank collection
The Saba Bank is a large submerged atoll off the coast of the island of Saba. It is the largest such atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, and the diversity of marine life found there is considered to be outstanding in the Caribbean region. At present, an effort is being made to have the Saba Bank [...]
