The Managing Director of the Sint Maarten Nature Foundation Tadzio Bervoets attended the fiftieth anniversary of the Bonaire National Parks Foundation STINAPA. The Guest of honor of the commemoration was Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Royal Patron of the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance, the Network Organization of Nature Parks in the Dutch Caribbean, of which Bervoets was both Vice and Acting Chair. Bervoets was a panel member during the DCNA Symposium of Environment and Economics in which the importance of the Environment in economic development was highlighted. Bervoets also had the opportunity to update Princess Beatrix on the environmental recovery of Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma and the status of environmental conservation on Sint Maarten.