Parks Work

Action Plan for Nassau Grouper consists of:

• Threats: overfishing, invasive species, climate change
• Management goals
• Recommendations: management, legislation, enforcement, science and monitoring, stakeholders, networking, information-education
• Gaps: •population data not available for the Dutch Caribbean, weak island legislation, CITES designation, CMS designation
• General Information: description and biology

Action Plan for Mountain mahogany consists of:

• Threats: storms (hurricanes), climate change, volcanic activity
• Management goals
• Recommendations: management, legislation, enforcement, science and monitoring, stakeholders, networking, information-education
• Gaps: population size, distribution and trends, life history and ecology, morphology data of remaining individuals
• General Information

Action Plan for Yellow-shouldered Amazon consists of:

• Threats: habitat loss. poaching, climate changes
• Management goals
• Recommendations: management, legislation, enforcement, science and monitoring, stakeholders, networking, information-education
• Gaps: weak island legislation, poor understanding population dynamics, poor knowledge of population distribution and foraging areas
• General Information: description and biology

Action Plan for Caribbean Spiny Lobster consists of:

• Threats: overfishing, disease, climate change
• Management goals
• Recommendations: management, legislation, enforcement, science and monitoring, stakeholders, networking, information-education
• Gaps: population and catch data not readily available for Dutch Caribbean, weak island legislation, IUCN designation: Caribbean spiney lobster is ‘data deficient'
• General Information: description and biology

Action Plan for Lignum Vitae consists of:

• Threats: overgrazing, residential/ commercial development, historical wood harvesting
• Management goals
• Recommendations: management, legislation, enforcement, science and monitoring, stakeholders, networking, information-education
• Gaps: population size, distribution and trends, life history and ecology, harvest, use and socio-economic value
• General Information

This action plan for the long-nosed bat describes:

• population status globally declining
• distribution: Occurs in northeast Colombia, north and western Venezuela, Margarita Island, Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba
• threats (habitat loss due to livestock farming, residential and commercial development)
• management goals
• recommendations (for management, legislation, enforcement, science and monitoring, stakeholders, networking, information-eduction)
• gaps