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STINAPA Bonaire

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TheSTINAPA BonaireorNational Parks Bonaire Foundation(Dutch:Stichting Nationale Parken Bonaire) is a non-governmental organization responsible for the management of the national parks onBonaireinCaribbean Netherlands.STINAPA is a member of theDutch 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 theNetherlands Antilles.The first activities took place on Bonaire where theWashington Slagbaai National Parkwas established in 1969. In that year, theBonaire National Marine Parkwas added. After this, projects were also started on, among others,CuraçaoandSaba,and in the late 1980s separate foundations were established on all Antillean islands.[1]

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  1. ^"STINAPA Financial Reports".Archived fromthe originalon 2022-10-03.Retrieved2019-06-10.
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