Ecology – Caribbean Footprint

The most picturesque plant on our islands is simply the cactus, and especially the columnar cactus. On the islands there are three different native columnar cacti that each have their own name on each of the islands. Learn how to differentiate between them.

Flora Wild flowers - Wilde bloemen

Wild flowers – Bourreria succulenta

juni 19, 2025

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A tree that will lose its leaves when the drought keep going on, but is also often the last one to drop all its leaves when it gets to dry.

Fauna Insects - Insecten

Tiny critters: Six-spotted zigzag ladybird

juni 16, 2025

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The Six-spotted zigzag ladybird is a species native to Asia and Australia but now widespread across the world, including the Caribbean.

Ecology - Ecologie Flora

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (10) – Trees in our local history

juni 10, 2025

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Our history is full of trees. Used as building materials, as a food supply for humans and livestock, to tan leather of to make quicklime, the stories are ample.

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Baby birds behaviour

juni 9, 2025

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The nest fledgling behaviour of grebe chicks is a strategy to be as safe as possible as soon as possible after hatching.

Fauna Marine environment - Mariene milieu

Marine wildlife – Variegated sea urchin

juni 5, 2025

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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.

Ecology - Ecologie

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (9) – Sick; swallow a tree!

juni 3, 2025

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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.

Ecology - Ecologie

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (8) – Trees under the magnifying glass

mei 25, 2025

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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.

Birds - Vogels Fauna

Island endemics – Bananaquit

mei 20, 2025

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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…

Ecology - Ecologie

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (7) – Local forests under the magnifying glass

mei 16, 2025

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Biologically, a distinction is made between different types of vegetation on our islands, and therefore different types of forests. The distinction is closely related to the geological composition of the soil on our small islands.

Caribbean Footprint

Tag: Ecology

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (11) – Cacti; special trees

Wild flowers – Bourreria succulenta

Tiny critters: Six-spotted zigzag ladybird

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (10) – Trees in our local history

Baby birds behaviour

Marine wildlife – Variegated sea urchin

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (9) – Sick; swallow a tree!

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (8) – Trees under the magnifying glass

Island endemics – Bananaquit

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (7) – Local forests under the magnifying glass

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