Bervoets Leaves Nature Foundation to Become Interim Director at Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance
PHILIPSBURG/KRALENDIJK — Nature Foundation Manager Tadzio Bervoets will be leaving the foundation to head the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance as of October 1st. The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA), More...
Free Festival on Sunday Celebrates Animals Made Here and More
May 15, 2018—Grand Case—The Endemic Animal Festival is a free event celebrating the animals found only on St. Martin and only in our region. It’s coming up this Sunday, May 20th from 9am to noon at Amuseum More...
Sint Maarten Nature Foundation Concerned About Waste Water, Garbage and Possible Sewage Being Dumped at Kim Sha Beach
Simpson Bay — The Sint Maarten Nature Foundation has expressed its grave concerns regarding the unrestricted flow of waste water being entered into an area of Kim Sha Beach. During inspections carried out More...
Tadzio Bervoets: “Happy New Year, Irma Survivors”
Dear Editor, This past year we felt the breath of the Earth, heavy and haunting, moaning like ancestors long forgotten. Shaking our souls and our foundations. Heaving our lives. Collapsing our dreams. We were torn More...
A Dispatch From a Caribbean Climate Change Refugee: Hurricane Irma, Sint Maarten and the New Caribbean Reality
I am standing in line – or rather in a disorganized congregation of desperate souls- in the parking lot of St. Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport, once the second busiest airport in the More...
Nature Foundation manager returns from leadership exchange program
GREAT BAY – Nature Foundation manager Tadzio Bervoets recently returned from a three-week International Visitor Leadership Exchange Program centered on Ocean Conservation and Sustainable Use and Management More...
If You Drink Beer You Contribute to Sint Maarten’s Environmental Problems
I enjoy drinking beer. Nothing beats coming up from a dive doing research in the Marine Park or after a long day in the office, ordering an ice-cold beer, and downing it in just a few swallows. I also enjoy beer More...
