With increase in awareness of the risks posed by climate change and increasingly severe weather events, attention has turned to the need for urgent action. While strategies to respond to flooding and drought are well-established, the effects - and effective response - to heat waves is much less understood. …

Onderzoekers van Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Wageningen University en Wageningen Marine Research hebben een nieuwe techniek ontwikkeld voor het natuurlijk herstel van Diadema zee-egels. Samen met de Saba Conservation Foundation, vonden zij een nieuw aanvullend substraat voor vestiging op het koraal …

The liveability of cities worldwide is under threat by the predicted increase in intensity and frequency of heatwaves and the absence of a clear spatial overview of where action to address this. Heat stress impairs vital urban functions (Böcker and Thorsson 2014), hits the local economy (Evers et al. …

The massive die-off of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in 1983–1984 is one the main reasons for low coral recruitment and little coral recovery in the Caribbean. As the natural recovery of D. antillarum is slow to non-existent, multiple restoration studies have been attempted. There are currently three …

Background and objectives Before the Covid-19 pandemic, important social studies already indicated the severe negative feedback associated with high-rise developments. During the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens were confronted with their neighbourhoods’ insufficient restorative capacity to maintain their …

Sinds de massasterfte van de belangrijke zee-egel soort Diadema Antillarum in het begin van de jaren 1980 zijn de koraalriffen in het Caribisch gebied sterk achteruit gegaan in productiviteit en biodiversiteit. Meerdere pogingen zijn gedaan om de populaties te herstellen, veelal met wisselend succes. …

Vorige week organiseerde de Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance een workshop over het herstel van de zee-egels op Saba. Deze workshop hielp 21 koraalexperts uit het Caribisch gebied en meer dan 65 online aanwezigen om een uitgebreid beeld te krijgen van de algehele situatie van de Diadema zee-egel in het …

In april 2022, the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA), together with the University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein, hosted a sea urchin (Diadema Antillarum) restoration workshop on Saba. During the workshop experts and representatives from the Dutch Caribbean and Jamaica came together to …

At Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (HVHL) in Leeuwarden, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum has been cultivated to help restore the coral reefs around Saba and St. Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands). The first young urchins bred in Leeuwarden were released on March 24th to the Rotterdam …

Diadema sea-urchins play a vital role in maintaining a balanced coral reef ecosystem and their restoration is essential to assist recovery of the degraded coral reefs around Saba and St. Eustatius. A collaborative effort between University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein, WUR, STENAPA, CNSI and …