These small, bright pink mushrooms have been photographed in various locations on Curaçao, including the Den Dunki nature reserve, Landhuis Bloemhof and others.
On Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, several plants grow whose Papiamento or Papiamentu name includes the word Basora (broom), and the Basora kòrá (Bonaire and Curaçao) or Betonica (Aruba) is one of them.
Danger from outside, to our nature! No nature-related topic has shone so brilliantly in the media in the period from 2010-2020 as this one. Well, it wasn’t so much about the value of nature itself, but rather about the fact that
Every year on October 10, the island of Curaçao celebrates the fact that the country became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on October 10 2010.
October is a true transition month. While tropical depressions sometimes bring occasional rain showers as early as August and September, October is known as the month where the rainy season begins, more or less halfway through.
When the humidity is right, the ground is wet and you have the luck to have the seeds of these plants in the ground, these little sweethearts will grow like crazy
The Latticed stinkhorn is called that for a reason. The mushroom produces a dark brown, rotting-flesh-smelling substance in the centre of its gauzy structure, which attracts flies and other insects.
During the large-scale biodiversity study conducted a couple of years ago by various scientists, primarily on Bonaire, a considerable number of small creatures were found and identified.
A strikingly large moray eel species is the Green Moray eel (Gymnothorax funebris), a species found in large parts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Se