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Aruba National Park Foundation

1 day ago

🐝Bee Engaged!🐝

On World Bee Day, May 20th, we celebrate the diversity and values of bees. Now is the time to re-think how we can support bees and the livelihoods and systems they, in turn, support!

For millennia, bees are among the hardest working creatures on the planet. As pollinators, they not only benefit plants and the environment, but also millions of people around the globe depend on bees for their wellbeing. By carrying pollen from one flower to another, bees and other pollinators enable not only the production of an abundance of fruits, nuts and seeds, but also more variety and better quality, contributing to nutrition and food security by improving the quantity and quality of agricultural productions.

Bees play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival and reproduction of many native plants, supporting forest regeneration, promoting sustainability and adaptation to climate change.

💡Three ways you can help bees:

✅Provide a bee watering station

✅Plant a bee garden

✅Go chemical-free

#WorldBeeDay #BeeEngaged #savethebees

🐝Abeha Zoom!🐝

Riba Dia Mundial di Abeha, mei 20, nos ta celebra e diversidad y balor di abeha. Awo ta e momento pa nos bolbe pensa con nos por sostene abeha y medionan di subsistencia y sistemanan cu den nan turno nan ta sostene!

Pa algun milenia, abeha ta un di especienan cu ta traha mas ariba e planeta aki. Como polinisador, nan no solamente ta beneficia mata y e medio ambiente, pero tambe e miyon di hendenan rond di mundo cu ta depende ariba abeha pa nan bienestar. Pa carga polen di un flor pa un otro, abeha y otro polinisador habilita no solamente e produccion di un ambundancia di fruta, noot, y simia, pero tambe mas variedad y miho calidad, contribuyendo na nutricion y seguridad di cuminda pa mihora e cantidad y calidad di producto agricola.

Abeha ta hunga un rol importante den mantene e biodiversidad, sigura e sobrevivencia y reproduccion di hopi matanan native, sosteniendo e regeneracion di mondi, promove sostenibilidad y adaptacion na cambio di clima.

💡Tres manera cu abo por yuda abeha:

✅Provee un stacion pa abeha bebe awa

✅Planta un hardin special pa abeha

✅Uza producto cu no tin kimico

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Aruba National Park Foundation

4 days ago

🍀Good luck!🍀
FPNA recently bid farewell to Melixa Werleman and Ineska Tromp, who successfully completed their internship within our organization, as part of their administrative studies at Colegio EPI. FPNA offers annual internship possibilities within different departments. We wish both ladies a lot of success with finishing their studies and starting their careers.

🍀Hopi suerte!🍀
Recientemente, FPNA a bisa ayo na Melixa Werleman y Ineska Tromo cu a completa nan stage cu exito den nos organisacion, como parti di nan estudio administrativo na EPI. FPNA ta ofrece anualmente diferente oportunidad di stage den e departamentonan. Nos ta desea tur dos dames hopi exito pa termina nan estudio y cu nan carera. ... See MoreSee Less

Aruba National Park Foundation

1 week ago

💡🦅Dim the Lights for Birds at Night!🦅💡
Light pollution has an impact on the survival of migratory birds and is the focus of World Migratory Bird Day 2022.
Learn more through this animated video from Cornell Lab of Ornithology: youtu.be/KDiNxAewnu4

#WorldMigratoryBirdDay #WMBD2022 #DimLightsForBirds

💡🦅Dim e Lusnan pa Parhanan Anochi!🦅💡
Polucion di lus tin un impacto riba e sobrevivencia di parhnan migratorio y ta enfoke di Dia Mundial di Parhanan MIgratiorio 2022.
Siña mas via e video anima aki di Cornell Lab of Ornithology : youtu.be/KDiNxAewnu4 ... See MoreSee Less

Aruba National Park Foundation

1 week ago

🦅Tomorrow, we celebrate World Migratory Bird Day!🦅
Did you know that: at least 4,000 different species of bird migrate, which adds up to about 40% of the entire avian population!?
World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is an international day celebrated on two peak days each year (the second Saturday in May and October) to highlight the global phenomenon of bird migration and to raise awareness of migratory birds and issues related to their conservation. It highlights the importance of international cooperation and encourages national and local action to protect migratory birds.
The roots of World Migratory Bird Day can be traced back to 1993, when International Migratory Bird Day was created in the Americas to focus public attention on the need for international cooperation to conserve birds and habitats. Almost three decades later, it has become a true global effort and having highlighted numerous pressing issues such as climate change, barriers to migration, illegal killing of birds, and plastic pollution. The WMBD2022 theme is light pollution and the impacts on migratory birds.

#WorldMigratoryBirdDay #WMBD2022 #DimLightsForBirds

🦅Mañan nos ta celebra Dia Mundial di Parhanan Migratorio!🦅
Bo tabata sa cu tin por lo menos 4,000 diferente especie di parha cu ta migra!? E cantidad aki ta somenta 40% di ful e populacion di tur parhanan mundialmente!
Dia Mundial di Parhanan Migratorio (WMBD) ta un dia internacional cu ta wordo celebra dos biaha pa aña riba e dianan cu mas trafico di parha migratorio (e di dos diasabra di Mei y Oktober). E dos dianan aki ta wordo celebra pa duna atencion na e fenomeno mundial di e migracion di parhanan y pa concientisa hende tocante parhanan migratorio y e retonan cu ta wordo encontra relaciona cu e conservacion di nan. E ta destaca e importancia di cooperacion interacional y ta encurasha accion nacional y local pa proteha parhanan migratorio.
E origen di e Dia Mundial di Parhanan Migratorio por wordo identifica na e aña 1993, ora e dia aki a wordo crea pa pone e publico su atencion su enfoke na e necesidad pa cooperacion internacional pa conserva parhanan migratorio y nan habitat. Casi tres decada despues, ela bira un esfuerso global unda tambe a destaca varios retonan manera cambio climatico, bareranan di migracion, a matamento ilegal di parhanan, y contaminacion pa medio di plastico. WMBD2022 su tema ta polucion pa medio di lus y e impacto riba parhanan migratorio. ... See MoreSee Less

Aruba National Park Foundation

1 week ago

🐍Aprecia nos Cascabel unico nativo / Appreciate our unique, endemic rattlesnake 🐍The Aruban rattlesnake is a venomous pit viper species found only on Aruba and is among the rarest of rattlesnakes in the world. It is estimated that fewer than 230 adults survive in the wild. Adults grow to an average length of 90cm and weigh about 1kg. They are light brown, tan or almost pink in color reflecting the soil color of its natural habitat. This species typically has darker brown diamond-shaped markings, but these can be nearly invisible or only visible in a narrow stripe down the middle of its back. Males reach sexual maturity in four years; females in five. After a gestation time of four months, females give birth to between 5-15 live young at a time. The habitat for this species is mostly limited to the rocky, dry southern tip of Aruba. Although exporting this snake off the island is illegal, there are no other legal protections on the island. This species is now a part of the Species Survival Plan for captive breeding in an attempt to boost its numbers.

Want to find out more about the Aruban Rattlesnake or other Flagship Species?
Visit dcnanature.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DCNA-FlagshipSpecies-2021.pdf

Have you spotted an Aruban Rattlesnake?
Please report your sighting via observation.org/

Photo by: © Christian König

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Aruba National Park Foundation

3 weeks ago

💪🏼Feliz Dia di Obrero / Happy Labor Day💪🏼
#dagvandearbeid #NatureUnitesUs ... See MoreSee Less