The STINAPA Bonaire or National Parks Bonaire Foundation ( nl, Stichting Nationale Parken Bonaire) is a

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

responsible for the management of the

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

s on

Bonaire Bonaire (; , ; pap, Boneiru, , almost pronounced ) is a Dutch island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west ( leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC i ...

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. STINAPA is a member of the

Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) is a regional partnership of conservation organisations, including the national parks on the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Maarten) and is inte ...

. The STINAPA Bonaire was created at the end of

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as the successor to STINAPA N.A. ('' Stichting Nationale Parken Nederlandse Antillen ''). This foundation was established in 1962 to protect and manage nature in the

Netherlands Antilles nl, In vrijheid verenigd"Unified by freedom" , national_anthem = , common_languages = Dutch English Papiamento , demonym = Netherlands Antillean , capital = Willemstad , year_start = 1954 , year_end = 2010 , date_start = 15 December , ...

. The first activities took place on Bonaire where the

Washington Slagbaai National Park Washington Slagbaai National Park is a national park and ecological reserve on the northwestern part of the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. The park covering approximately a fifth of the island of Bonaire is managed by STINAPA ...

was established in 1969. In that year the Bonaire National Marine Park was added. After this, projects were also started on, among others,

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

and

Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Saba (river), ...

and in the late 1980s separate foundations were established on all Antillean islands.STINAPA Financial Reports
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References

External links

Official website
Nature conservation organizations based in North America Environment of the Dutch Caribbean Environmental organisations based in the Netherlands Organisations based in Bonaire National park administrators {{environmental-org-stub