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LOCAL Thursday 10 November 2022

DCNA’s Next Board Meeting and Public Presentation

Kralendijk, Bonaire - The the Ministry of Agriculture, sentation, Mr. Marquez will
Dutch Caribbean Nature Nature and Food Qual- elaborate on these chal-
Alliance (DCNA) will host ity (LNV) also participate in lenges and by using bird
its biannual board meeting DCNA Board Meetings. research and monitoring
from the 16 November to 19 as an example, introduce
November on Bonaire. Public Presentation pragmatic solutions on
In addition, there will be a how to better understand
DCNA’s Board meetings public presentation entitled these natural systems. This
provide an important plat- “I see you: Research and presentation is open to the
form for discussing and Monitoring in the Dutch public and will be held 17
strategizing the most ef- Caribbean” given by Di- November at 7PM in the
fective ways to support ego Marquez who sup- meeting room at Captain
protected area manage- ports DCNA’s Research & Don’s Habitat.q
ment organizations (parks) Monitoring Working Group.
to safeguard nature on Research and Monitoring Photo:
Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, in the Dutch Caribbean Credit Hans Smulders- alle
Saba, St. Eustatius and St. has many challenges as- rechten voorbehouden
Maarten. Besides, a pre- sociated with it. In his pre-
sentation will be open to
the public about research
and monitoring in the
Dutch Caribbean on Thurs-
day 17th of November at 7
pm at Captain Don’s Habi-
tat, Bonaire.
The DCNA conservation
network provides support
to the parks of all six islands
of the Dutch Caribbean.
Critical components which
will be discussed during
the Board Meeting are the
DCNA 2030 strategy, dis-
bursement of the Conser-
vation Trust Fund and fund-
raising strategy. Besides,
updates will be given by
the secretariat and DCNA
working groups to improve
research and monitoring
efforts and youth partici-
pation. The DCNA board
meeting is also an impor-
tant opportunity for each The DCNA has had some Randwijck as relationship
of the parks to collaborate, exciting changes since manager. Aside from con-
share resources and ex- their last board meeting. It servation managers and
change information and was a heartfelt goodbye the various experts of the
ideas. Working together, for their previous Direc- Board of DCNA, observers
each island can learn from tor Tadzio Bervoets and a from the International Union
the others, maximizing their warm welcome for their for the Conservation of Na-
successes and learning new team members: Arno ture (IUCN-NL), World Wide
from the more challenging Verhoeven as the new Di- Fund for Nature (WWF–NL),
experiences. rector and Frederique van BirdLife Netherlands and