Summary:
The report provides management recommendations and sets the first key steps in developing a common frame of reference for the whole of the Dutch Caribbean (i.e. including the islands of Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten). These islands share historical and cultural ties, partly similar climates, scarce expertise, and experience most IAS as a common problem. The magnitude and severity of the problem is evident and necessitates a joint strategy into which action at insular level can be embedded for maximum efficiency and synergy: a common Invasive Alien Species Strategy (IASS).
Additional remarks:
Category of best practice:
Biodiversity management (e.g. conservation ex situ and in situ, sustainable use and exploitation, rehabilitation, management of invasive species, pollutants, pesticides)
Governance and policies (e.g. interactions science/societies, regulations, decision-makers, networks, international collaborations)
Criteria used to define the best practice:
Applicability/transferability to other regions
Adaptive management of biodiversity (allowing to cope with change of environmental conditions, e.g. climate change in time)
Good governance (involve relevant stakeholders and integrate different interests and perspectives and needs in part from local stakeholders)
Web address of best practice:
Organisation:
Ministry of Economic Affairs - National Office Caribbean Netherlands (National Government of the Netherlands)
Contact details:
Paul Hoetjes (paul.hoetjes@rijksdienstcn.com) - Policy coordinator nature
Geographic region:
Caribbean
Location:
Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba