Come & Plant with us!

Delfins Beach Resort embraces this mission of the Tera Barra foundation: making Bonaire greener and enlarging biodiversity. During their stay, guests can also easily contribute to this. With Bloom Back Bonaire we hope to plant as many as 7,500 native trees on Bonaire each year.

For every room clean that is saved, together with Tera Barra we will plant one native tree

“Tera Barra wants to make Bonaire green again within one generation and they are well on their way to achieve exactly that. During my visits to the nursery and other locations on the island, I was constantly impressed. You can see nature turning greener and a large variety of insects buzzing busily around. This has a wonderful positive effect on the island!”

Chris Opgenoort, General Manager Delfins Beach Resort

Linked with the island

The island treats us well, we treat the island well. It’s the place where we so proudly welcome our guests. The place with so much natural beauty to discover. The place we feel responsible for. That same responsibility is felt by Johan van Blerk, founder of Tera Barra, who, together with a group of volunteers, lends a helping hand to local nature to preserve and bring back diversity on Bonaire.

Tera Barra: growing insight

In the middle of nature between Kralendijk and Rincon, Tera Barra is growing thousands of trees and plants. On the fully cactus-hedge enclosed grounds of about five acres, nature is getting a chance. Countless different species of trees and plants are growing there, creating diversity. The original vegetation returns.

At Tera Barra, Bonaireans, school classes and tourists can see with their own eyes what Bonaire’s nature should look like. As a visitor you can stop by the information center and take a look inside the greenhouses. But the most important goal of Johan and his volunteers is to reforest the island. That diversity disappeared as past conquerors used trees to create things like pulleys, donkey saddles and charcoal. Today, there’s the challenge of overgrazing. "Bonaire is home to many wild goats and goat farming is an important part of Bonairean culture," says Johan of Tera Barra. "We have to try and find a balance there.”

Bloom Back Bonaire: small choice, huge difference

On Delfins Beach Resort we thoroughly clean many rooms every day. Ensuring that, as our guest, there’s a lovely place for you to get well-rested and to completely recharge your batteries again. We clean the rooms as sustainably as possible, but it does consume energy and raw materials and we want to manage this as consciously as possible. That’s why we ask our guests to not have their rooms cleaned every day. For every room clean that is saved, together with Terra Barra we will plant one native tree. All these trees combined make an enormous positive impact on the island!

Bonaire will become greener and as a result the island will cool down, which in these times of climate change, is highly welcome.

The power of Kibrahacha

Native plants and trees contribute to a healthy ecosystem and a healthy biodiversity on the island. One of the most well-known native trees on Bonaire is the Kibrahacha. The wood of the Kibrahacha is ultra strong. Hence the name: Kibra (break) hacha (axe). Especially after an intense rain shower the tree is blooming all around. With the nectar from its big, yellow flowers, insects and birds can recharge their batteries again. We wish our guests that same colorful, welcoming, and energetic experience. That's why you see the Kibrahacha reflected in our house style and on our company clothes.

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