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Instagram post 2159831731256409210_4480262742 Saturday morning we had a great time with our junior rangers in preperation for their Exchange to Bonaire with @dcnanature! The students learned about reducing single-use plastics from our intern Grace and they learned everything about sea turtles and sea turtle nesting on our beaches from our intern Saskia. Guillaume, their leader for the trip to Bonaire, showed them the importance of mangroves and how mangoves grow. The students learned about coral reefs and how you can help to protect these important ecosystems. After all the learning, we visited the mangroves at Mullet Pond while enjoy the ride through the Simpson bay lagoon onboard of the Marine Park Patrol boat 'yellowtail! We wish the students much luck during their exchange in Bonaire and are looking forward to receive them back as real environmental ambassadors! Thank you @dcna for making this happening! #dcna #juniorrangers #naturrisourfuture #childrenareourfuture #oceandefender #lovenature #natureconservation #exchange #environment
Instagram post 2159820542262496610_4480262742 We find daily single-use plastic trash on our beaches! This photo was taken by our Reduce and reuse intern while completing a beach patrol for sea turtles at Great Bay Beach. In addition to being an eye sore on the beach, these plastics are carried into the ocean through rising tides, runoff water, and wind. Great Bay is also a sea turtle nesting beach, therefore these species are at great risk for coming in contact with these plastic materials. Single use plastics pollute our beaches faster than we can clean it up. It is our job to prevent these items from littering our beaches through proper disposal and reducing our plastic consumption. Start by saying no to single use plastics and carry your own reusable materials such as water bottles, bags, straws, and cutlery. Encourage friends and family to make greener choices as well. Change starts at the individual level! #nosingleuse #donotlitter #nolitter #reducesxm #reusesxm #saynotoplastic #nosingleuseplastic #naturefoundation #saveourocean #savecorals #oceandefender #reusesxm
Instagram post 2157662581679259143_4480262742 For the next 10 days, our ranger intern Ray-Angel Simon (17) @rayxsimon will be attending a course on environmental sustainability in Bulgaria. He along with three others from the island will be going on this trip to speak on both the good and bad practices happening on the island where environmental sustainability is concerned. Congrats to Ray for being selected for this great experience, we wish him much luck representing our island and the Nature Foundation! Enjoy, the youth is our future! #environment #ranger #sustainability #scubadiving #naturefoundation #natureisourfuture
Instagram post 2157613027621715924_4480262742 Green turtle nest at Dawn Beach This week we found tracks from a green sea turtle at Dawn Beach in front of the Westin Hotel. We expect it to be a successful laid nest, however due to the strong rain the night before nesting signs faded away, making nesting confirmation more difficult. When a sea turtle nest hatch, the hatchlings will follow the light as naturally the ocean is more light than the land, therefore artificial lightening can affect their way to the ocean. Artificial light can lead the little sea turtles to the wrong way and they can become an easy prey for other animals and birds when crawling over the beach and land. We consider Dawn Beach to be one of the most important nesting beach for our sea turtles on Sint Maarten. #saveourseaturtles #hatchlings #dawnbeach #naturefoundation #natureisourfuture #greenturtle #turtletracks
Instagram post 2152521494767792355_4480262742 The Nature Foundation welcomes a new intern! Grace Hansen is a 21-year-old recent Rollins College graduate from Maryland, United States. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Sustainable Development. Having served as the Recycling Coordinator on her college campus, she will continue working towards a greener planet as the Reduce and Reuse intern for the Nature Foundation. Grace will be presenting to local primary and secondary schools, businesses, and organizations about the negative environmental impacts of single use plastics. Additionally, she will organize environmental clean ups and write news articles and social media posts about the project and recent activities. Having completed her PADI Advanced Open Water SCUBA Certification this past April, she will be assisting in our coral restoration project to help repopulate denuded coral reefs. Grace will be with the Foundation for 5 months. Welcome, Grace! #reducereusesxm #naturefoundationsxm #natureisourfuture #oceandefender #ilovenature #reducesxm #reusesxm #saveourocean #nolittering #recycle #reduce
Instagram post 2152500937728881631_4480262742 Hatch Success in Simpson Bay At our weekly beach patrol at Simpson Bay we found two hatched sea turtle egg shells. This can be used to confirm that the nesting was successful and sea turtles had hatched. Unfortunately we were not able to located the nest. If you find sea turtle eggs or shells or hatchlings at the beach, please do not touch them but call the Nature Foundation for assistance. To help the hatchlings to reach the sea safely, it is useful to keep any plastic out of their way and do not disturb them in any way. The same applies for adult nesting sea turtles at the beach. Sea turtles are an endangered species and we should do our best to protect and help them. If you see any signs of sea turtle activities at the beach, please contact the Nature Foundation St Maarten. #saveourseaturtles #simpsonbay #nestingseason #hatching #naturefoundation #nosingleuseplastic
Instagram post 2151843963150504370_4480262742 Hawksbill sea turtle nest on Gibb´s Bay! At our beach patrol at Gibb´s Bay we found a Hawksbill nest and tracks. Hopefully in about 60 days little sea turtle hatch and try to reach the sea. 20 meters next to this nest we found a second Hawksbill crawl without a nest, probably it was the same sea turtle, but it did not manage to nest the first time. It tried to build a nest but stopped for some unknown reason. Luckily, the second attempt was successful. Therefore, it is very important to make sure we are not disturbing a nesting sea turtle in anyway. For example a sea turtle can be disturbed by a bonfire at the beach, artificial lightening, by vehicles which drive over the beach, flashlights, free-range dogs or humans. As well it is very important to keep the beach clean, otherwise it can be a deadly trap for nesting sea turtles and hatchlings. #hawksbillseaturtle #saveourseaturtles #noplastic #natureisourfuture #naturefoundation #nobeachdriving #nestingseason
Instagram post 2150362345292224723_4480262742 We are so happy to see these new signs on our beaches in collaboration with the St Maarten Tourist Bureau, @aucmed_edu , I's S' Maatin Eyes and Epic. Please remember not to drive on our beaches, do not take any vegetation, keep our beaches clean, no camping and no bonfires. Please leave marine life in the water, do not touch or harash marine life in any way, no fishing and watch out to not step on corals. These rules and regulation are to protect our environment, nature and marine life and to ensure we still have them in the future, therefore please respect them and educate your friends and family. #cleansxm #saveourocean #naturefoundation #oceandefender #ilovesxm #nature #marinelife #notrash #notouching #saveourcorals #sxmstrong #natureisourfuture
Instagram post 2150352907630179802_4480262742 Today we found these mangrove seedlings on Guana Bay Beach, together with Kippy from the Vromi department. We will take care of them and will grow them with the help of our interns and volunteers. Hopefully they will grow into large mangroves which will be protecting our shores one day. #mangroves #naturefoundation #natureisourfuture #mangroveseedlings #mangroverestoration
Instagram post 2148149355927065293_4480262742 We had a great clean up with @sxmaction on belair beach and collected many bags in a short time. There is so much trash on this beach and especially in between the bush and mangroves, please take home your trash after your visit and do not litter. Thanks to JCI SXM action! Next month we will have another clean up with them on Guana Bay beach! #beachcleanup #naturefoundation #cleanup #donotlitter #notrash #natureisourfuture #jci #sxmaction
Instagram post 2147547146617175160_4480262742 Yesterday we were at the Green Initiatives meeting, these monthy meetings are open for green organizations and initiatives and together we strive to make St Maarten greener. Last night Minister of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (Ministry of VROMI), the Honorable Christopher Wever joined the meeting to learn about the projects and events we are working on and how we can collaborate together in the future. We heard about the results of Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC) Sint Maarten's lagoon valuation study done by interns Anne, Anna & Sem, also with the assistance of the Nature Foundation. This research shows how important the Simpson Bay Lagoon of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin is for the economy and the environment in real dollars and sense. We also spoke about the Call for Action launched by the green initiatives to ban single-use plastic from Sint Maarten. To sign follow this link: https://www.change.org/p/less-plastic-more-sxm #LessPlasticMoreSXM #Waste2Work #GreenInitiatives #BetterTogether
Instagram post 2147400832147381182_4480262742 No more vehicles driving and parking on Kimsha Beach! The Nature Foundation is happy to see that the Vromi department closed of beach access for cars. The Foundation called on the public and government to stop driving on beaches numerous times as it has a negative impact on the beach environment, marine life and sea turtles. The beach purpose is recreational activities and the most important natural resource for St Maarten, attracting numerous tourist every year. Vehicles driving and parking on our beaches damage the beach and their natural inhabitants, leaving compressed tire tracks, oil and fuels behind. Therefore the Foundation is very delighted to see this positive change and would like to remind the public to not drive on any of our other beaches as well. #saveourbeach #nodrivingonbeaches #seaturtles #naturefoundation #saveourocean #kimshabeach #natureisourfuture #stopdrivingonbeaches
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