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Wild flowers: Parkinsonia aculeata

november 14, 2025

A tree that also likes to grow in the nutritious and moist soil of a dam or similar kind of natural area is the relatively rare Bonchi strena (Parkinsonia aculeata).

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (15) – Invasive dangers to our forests B

november 7, 2025

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It’s bizarre how little legislation and control there is in 2025 over the import of plants, soil, building materials, and all other products in which harmful organisms can hide.

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Wild flowers: Melochia tomentosa (Basora kòrá – Betonica)

oktober 23, 2025

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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.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (14) – Invasive dangers to our forests A

oktober 13, 2025

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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

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Wild flowers: Commelina erecta

oktober 6, 2025

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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

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Wild flowers: Makurá

september 24, 2025

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Bright red beans with a black dot are the feature of this plant that most people will recognize. The flowers are delicate and pink.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (13) – Forests, natural areas in danger (B)

september 18, 2025

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The disruption of natural processes is the final blow to forests. The isolation of small patches of nature, disrupting not only animals but also plants in their natural habitat, is a common occurrence on the ABC Islands.

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Wild flowers: Ceratosanthes palmata

september 16, 2025

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The plant known scientifically as Ceratosanthes palmata occurs on all three ABC-islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao .

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Wild flowers: Cat’s claw

september 2, 2025

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The Papiamentu/o word uña means nail, and when this word is imbedded in the local name for a plant you can be sure there is some spiny element to the plant that can be nasty.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (12) – Forests, natural areas in danger (A)

augustus 21, 2025

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Forests worldwide are under threat. This includes forests on our islands. Television and newspapers regularly report that forests are being cut down, burned, bulldozed, plundered, and so on. Terms like biodiversity, habitat destruction, impoverishment, and erosion are all used to illustrate the threats to forests. But what exactly does all this mean? What actually happens when a piece of forest is removed while many others remain? And what about this process on our islands?

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