Caribbean travel: Saba reopens and is ready to showcase the island: Travel Weekly travelweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from travelweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published: 20 May 2021
SABA: -The project to construct a new harbor at Black Rocks is proceeding. The existing dirt road has been widened and rock catchment benches have been created to provide safe access to the Black Rocks area. The intention is to soon start the construction of a grouted rock wall along the road and to initiate preparatory works for utilities. Various studies have now been completed, which provide important information for the further elaboration of this comprehensive project, financed by the Dutch government.
The archaeological site survey by the Saba Archaeological Foundation SABARC has been concluded. Several artifacts were found in the Black Rocks area, including two old ship cannons which will be moved to a dive site. The soil investigation and the laboratory tests of the soil samples withdrawn from the land and sea bed are finished. The fieldwork by a team from Geotron of the Netherlands was concluded in September last year after which laborato
Published: 13 May 2021
SABA: -The removal of free-roaming goats on Saba will start this Monday, May 17, starting in the Mt. Scenery National Park, an area rich in biodiversity which has been heavily impacted upon by grazing animals.
This project is funded by Nature and Environment Policy Plan Caribbean Netherlands 2020-2030 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality LNV. The Public Entity Saba is implementing the goat control project to address the longstanding issue of free-roaming goats across the island. For this, the Public Entity Saba has appointed invasive species experts as the official government hunters to carry out the removal of free-roaming goats.
Toggle Sidebar
Ground-breaking Shark Research Conducted in St. Maarten
DCNA Nature reports on valuable research on sharks that has been taking place in the Dutch Caribbean. The research focused on tiger sharks, nurse sharks, and the endangered Caribbean reef sharks along the Saba Bank.
During the week of April 11, 2021, members from the Nature Foundation St. Maarten, the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA), the Saba Conservation Foundation (SCF), and Beneath the Waves conducted multiple ‘scientific firsts’ as part of the “Shark Shakedown” project. The research expedition was a part of a wider research project into tiger sharks in the region funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-NL) through the Biodiversity Funds and the Dutch National Postcode Lottery. researchers tagged eleven sharks, including for the first time a female pregnant tiger and endangered Caribbean reef shark in the Dutch Caribbean. The data will provide vital information for conservation stra