A story in Tuesday's newspaper incorrectly reported that an article about Mr.

David Wingate and Nonsuch Island appeared in the June issue of Homes & Garden.

The article is in the July issue.

Bermuda's rare and isolated wildlife sanctuary, Nonsuch Island, is highlighted in the June issue of House and Garden, a US-based magazine that circulates to more than 625,000 people.

The article by Mr. Douglas Brenner discusses Bermuda's environment and the ways in which chief conservation officer Mr. David Wingate has attempted to make changes.

"A native Bermudian, he has a mandate to care for the endangered flora and fauna, encourage ecological awareness, and advise on planning -- all key roles in an economy that relies on the exquisite balance of nature and civilisation to keep visitors coming back,'' Mr. Brenner said.

Mr. Brenner noted that Nonsuch Island, a rugged 15-acre Government nature sanctuary at the south end of Castle Harbour, was the operations base for Dr.

William Beebe when he made his history-making deep water dives in the 1930s.

"Mr. Wingate began transforming it 30 years ago into what he calls a "living museum'' for indigenous plants and animals,'' Mr. Brenner writes.

The article also discusses the fact that most of the plants, birds and bushes that catch the eye of tourists today are all among the "exotic imports that have dramatically altered the face of Bermuda ever since Spanish navigators left behind a herd of pigs in the 1500s''.

"By now barely five percent of the vegetation on Bermuda's main Island is native, and many of the animals that thrived in an Eden devoid of predators before the arrival of man have long since grown scarce or disappeared.'' Mr. Brenner also writes about Mr. Wingate's childhood discoveries that led him to have an interest in conservation.

"It was the call of the bygone wild that first drew David Wingate to the Castle Harbour Islands in 1950,'' he reports. "A schoolboy explorer with his first pair of field glasses, he paddled about in a kayak, hoping to find traces of the legendary cahow, or Bermuda petrel, a once abundant sea bird then believed to be extinct in the 17th century.'' But in the late 1950s, the bird was rediscovered though its population was near the point of extinction. The article notes Mr. Wingate's efforts to bring the ground-nesting bird back through the construction of what he calls "government housing'' nests.

Mr. Wingate has also planted cedar seedlings and other vegetation around the Island that once grew in abundance on their own.

"The maturing woodland has since weathered hurricanes that felled non-native trees elsewhere on the Islands, confirming the value of Nonsuch as an environmental laboratory for all Bermuda.'' Mr. Wingate said: "The living museum won't really be completed until the Cahow colonises this ecosystem.

"I don't expect to see it in my lifetime, but then I never expected to see yellow-crown night herons raise their young in cedars I transplanted from gallon cans. It's an ongoing hold-your-breath struggle.'' Mr. David Windgate.