Check out the preview video for the 2016 Endemic Animal Festival. The event is going to be a lot of fun and there’s just one week to go. Mark your calendars for Sunday, April 24th from 9am to noon and head out to the St. Maarten Zoo to learn about these amazing animals. Check out …
Tune in to 102.7FM from 5-6pm this evening and listen to Voice of Our Children, a radio show hosted by local youth. Les Fruits de Mer co-founder Mark Yokoyama is the guest this week and they discuss Caribbean birds, BirdsCaribbean and the upcoming End…
In preparation for the upcoming 2016 Endemic Animal Festival, Les Fruits de Mer has released a free eBook—Eye on Endemics: Caribbean Originals— featuring full-color photos and fascinating info about some of the captivating lizards, birds, and insects found only on this island or only in our region. The book is available for free download on …
We’re quite excited to have our upcoming Endemic Animal Festival featured in Le Bon Air, the in-flight magazine of Air Antilles. Or, I guess I should say Festival des Animaux Endémiques!
Wild Statia takes a second look at the wealth of information presented in the recent Journal of Caribbean Ornithology article about Statia. In addition to compiling records of species never seen on the island before, the article also shares data on populations that have been changing in recent years. The full article from the JCO …
It started with a chance discovery and a quirk of Caribbean biological research. During the development of their free pop-up natural history museum, Amuseum Naturalis, members of Les Fruits de Mer found a cache of antique biological specimens in the attic of the building and a product was born: Rhum Biologique. “Strong rum was the …
There’s so much we have yet to learn about even the most common species we are living with. Hopefully local biologists will be the ones to fill in the gaps in the coming years.
In this week’s Wild Statia, we take a look at a recent publication collecting records of new bird species sighted on Statia. You can access the original article for free at the Journal of Caribbean Ornithology.
The desire to see ourselves in birds is powerful. They do lots of “human” stuff. Seeing them as versions of us doesn’t necessarily help us understand them better, but feeling the commonality does bring us closer to nature.
Here’s a short video about the project we just did with SXM DOET and Be the Change SXM at the St. Maarten Zoo: