Wild flowers- Banana di ref/rif

Along the entire northern coast of our island, in the saliñas and along inlets and inner bays, grows a small plant that we all walk over carelessly and hardly look at.

Download Book ‘Rikesa di yobida‘ now!

The very popular book ‘Rikesa di yobida’, written by authors Gerard van Buurt and Carel de Haseth and illustrated with pictures by these authors and by Leon Pors, was published in 2011 by Fundashon Bon Intenshon on Curaçao.

Wild flowers- Mexican poppy

A wild plant you can mainly find on places where the original vegetation is heavily disturbed is the so called Mexican poppy or Flowering thistle.

Wild flowers – Cawara / Karawara (di mondi) (Cordia dentata)

When it rains the mondi is full with these cream coloured flowers, growing in dense clusters on shrubs or small trees that have dark green leaves that feel rough to the touch.

Wild flowers- Basora pretu (Varronia curassavica)

The Varronia curassavica is called Basora preto on Aruba, Karishuri on Bonaire and Basora pretu on Curaçao. It is a plant that can easily be overlooked and often considered to be a weed…

Shells: Common purple snail

In 1758 Linnaeus gave the scientific name Janthina janthina to a tiny and very delicate purple / blue snail shell and its snail inhabitant.

Birds ID: Black-faced grassquit

The avifauna of the Leeward islands, the diversity of bird species on the islands, consists of several seed eaters, and the most inconspicuous and often overlooked species is the Black Faced grassquit or Mòfi (Tiaris bicolor)

2020 E-Book: Top 10 Garden birds on Curaçao

This E-book gives information on the Top 10 native garden birds which can be encountered in the garden on the island of Curaçao.

Shells – The Bleeding Tooth Nerite

This snail and shell species has quite a name in English: the Bleeding Tooth Nerite. It is kind of logical though if you take a good look at the shell this snail species builds for itself.

A plastic cup on the head

If you look around critically in any random supermarket or shop and analyse how much plastic is used, how much plastic is available and how much is disposed of as…

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