Sea urchins have a bad reputation, but they are essential to a healthy marine environment including reefs. The Variegated sea urchin is one of several species of sea urchin.
The active fight of plants against natural attacks, such as predation by insects and other animals, fungi that want to invade and fauna that use parts of the plants, has resulted in a variety of defence mechanisms. Some of these are highly beneficial to human kind.
The so beloved Flamboyant, one of the most beloved trees on our islands, does not originally come from Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao or even from the Caribbean.
If you want a forest, you need trees. Trees are special organisms that are more complex than we often think. The ease with which trees are cut down would be a lot less if we realized how much a tree has had to go through to become as big and wide as we see it.
Today the world celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity, also called Biodiversity Day. This years theme is: Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development.
Everyone with a good knowledge of nature on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao know that the Bringamosa plant has a very close relationship with the Flaira.
Did you know that Curaçao and Aruba share an endemic subspecies of Bananaquit and that Bonaire has its very own endemic subspecies that is somewhat different! Read on for more…