The STINAPA Bonaire or National Parks Bonaire Foundation () is a non-governmental organization responsible for the management of the national parks on

Bonaire Bonaire is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality (officially Public body (Netherlands), "public body") of the Netherlands. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west (Windward an ...

Caribbean Netherlands The Caribbean Netherlands (, ) is a geographic region of the Netherlands located outside of Europe, in the Caribbean, consisting of three special municipalities. These are the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba (island), Saba,"Bonair ...

. STINAPA is a member of the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance. The STINAPA Bonaire was created at the end of the 1980s as the successor to STINAPA N.A. ('' Stichting Nationale Parken Nederlandse Antillen ''), which had been established in 1962 to protect and manage nature in the

Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles (, ; ), also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba (island), Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, ...

. The first activities took place on Bonaire where the Washington Slagbaai National Park 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, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

and

Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Șaba or Șaba-Târg, the Romanian name for Shabo, a village in Ukraine * Saba, ...

, and in the late 1980s separate foundations were established on all Antillean islands.

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Official website
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