Biodiversity on Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius

October 2010 - three special municipalities

The Dutch Caribbean, a name that ignites the imagination. In October 2010 the BES islands, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, acquired the status of special municipalities of the Netherlands, and the former Netherlands Antilles ceased to exist. The islands are home to priceless ecological treasures, both under water and on land: turtles, lobsters, whales, dolphins, coral, flamingos, and a seemingly endless list of tropical plant species. In the year of biodiversity, the Netherlands has therefore acquired a greater responsibility for natures riches.

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Three caribbean municipalities

 
Sea turtles, flamingo's and coral... in the Netherlands! On 10 october 2010 Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba became part of the Netherlands. Where are these municipalities situated and how do they look like?

Nature in all its diversity

From cloud forest and salt domes to coral pillars. Each of the three islands of Saba, St Eustatius and Bonaire not only has its own population, culture, language and administration, but the differences in their natural environments are just as big as those between the Wadden Sea and the hills of Limburg.

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