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Importance of Seagrass and Macroalgae in the Protection of Coastlines

November 1, 2020

Researchers from the Netherlands and Mexico studied three bays on Saint Martin to illustrate the ability… Read more >

Stoplight parrotfish

(Sparisoma viride)

Photo credit: © Hannah Rempel

Recovery of Orbicella annularis corals from parrotfish predation

November 1, 2020

Orbicella annularis is an important reef-building coral and an endangered species. Previous studies suggest it is… Read more >

Caribbean Reef Shark

Photo credit: © Diego Camejo

Tracking Sharks around Sint Maarten

November 1, 2020

The St. Maarten Nature Foundation recently retrieved acoustic receivers (loggers) to learn about the movement patterns… Read more >

Humpback whale breaching

Millions of sightings by citizens contribute to mapping Biodiversity

October 2, 2020

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides a global platform for citizen scientists to upload biological observations… Read more >

Lettuce Coral

Agaricia undata with associated gall-crabs (yellow arrows and ellipses) and gall-like structures (white arrows)

Discovery of a new host coral for a Caribbean parasitic crab species

October 2, 2020

Scientists from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the ANEMOON Foundation discovered a… Read more >

Using Sound to Track Marine Mammals in Saba Bank

October 2, 2020

Since 2011, the Saba Bank noise logger research project has been collecting acoustic data of marine… Read more >

Red Hind

(Epinephelus guttatus)

Photo credit: © Hans Leijnse

Protecting Saba Bank’s Red Hind and Queen Triggerfish Populations

October 2, 2020

Wageningen Marine Research and the Saba Bank Management Unit (SMBU) recently published an evaluation of the… Read more >

Long spined sea urchin

(Diadema antillarum)

Photo credit: © Tom Wijers

Assisted natural recovery of sea urchin populations around Saba and St. Eustatius

Saba / Sint Eustatius

October 2, 2020

Diadema sea-urchins play a vital role in maintaining a balanced coral reef ecosystem by grazing away… Read more >

Importance of Native Seagrass in the Fight Against Erosion

August 17, 2020

A recent study worked to quantify seagrass’s ability to minimize erosion in shallow water of Lac… Read more >

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