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Blue Marine Foundation launches new partnership with Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance

Ocean charity makes initial grant of $90,000 to marine parks on six Dutch Caribbean islands. Award… Read more >

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Bonaire Hosts an International Mangrove Restoration Workshop

Aruba / Bonaire / Curaçao

November 1, 2021

Between October 25th and 28th, Bonaire’s Mangrove Maniacs hosted their first Mangrove Restoration Workshop . The… Read more >

humpback whale

Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Photo credit: © Mike Doherty

Recommendations for avoiding collisions with humpback whales in the Dutch Caribbean

A new study from the Aeres University of Applied Sciences combined expert knowledge and an analysis… Read more >

Photo credit © Sami Kattan/Beneath the Waves

Caribbean Shark Coalition Launched to Promote Training, Impact, and Collaboration around shark protections in the Greater Caribbean Region

Aruba / Bonaire / Saba / Sint Eustatius / Sint Maarten

The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) and Beneath the Waves (BTW) have launched the Caribbean Shark… Read more >

DCNA’s Board Meeting: strategizing nature conservation

The Board of the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) recently held their first Board Meeting for… Read more >

Oceanic manta ray

(Manta birostris)

Photo credit: © Peter Verhoog/DutchSharkSociety/PEW

Citizen Scientists Needed to Identify Local Manta and Devil Rays

DCNA is partnering with the Caribbean Islands Manta Conservation Program, an affiliate project of the Manta… Read more >

Sabal Palm

(Sabal antillensis)

Photo credit: © John de Freitas

Intervention Needed to Save the endemic Sabal Palm of Bonaire

Bonaire / Curaçao

An update to a 40-year-old Sabal palm survey for the islands of Bonaire and Curaçao highlighted… Read more >

Image credit: © Deviate Design & Mercedes Madriz

Informational material on protected species (CITES) developed for the Caribbean Netherlands

Bonaire / Saba / Sint Eustatius

Informational material for regulations outlined in the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species of wild… Read more >

Coral Reef

Photo credit: © MMBockstael-Rubio

DCNA Concludes Management Success Project for Dutch Caribbean Protected Areas

February 8, 2021

In December 2020 the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA), through its contractors Nature2 and Coastal Zone… Read more >