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A hurricane hindered efforts to return a native species of fern to Bermuda’s wild areas.
Efforts to reintroduce the Governor Laffan’s Fern, considered extinct in the wild, to various sites around the island had mixed results last year, after the isla...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An environmental group celebrated Earth Day yesterday with a tree-planting programme.
The Bermuda Climate Action Network said the reduction of travel and closure of factories in the fight against Covid-19 had resulted in an “environmental boon” with ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The second annual Bermuda Championship will embrace a new policy to reduce waste when it returns this October.
Organisers of the international golf event announced today, in recognition of Earth Day, that it would adopt the PGA Tour’s reusable cup po...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The worldwide Covid-19 lockdown has not deterred bluebirds from their Bermuda nesting season.
Christian Chin-Gurret, a Bermudian student and founder of the Happy Bird Company bluebird box makers, said the eastern bluebird season had already started.
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DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new green organisation said it aimed to make Bermuda the first carbon-neutral country in the world.
Climate Wise, founded by entrepreneur Stephen Castree, said the organisation would allow companies and individuals to fund international projects th...
DATE: Apr 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An unseen episode of a Bermudian-based marine wildlife programme with the late veterinarian Neil Burnie’s narration will be broadcast next week.
The Ocean Vet Turtles episode, starring Dr Burnie and conservationist Choy Aming, was filmed before Dr Bu...
DATE: Apr 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A west end nature reserve is to get a makeover.
The Bermuda Audubon Society said a “major restoration project” at the Somerset Long Bay Nature Reserve was launched to tackle vines and cow cane that had overrun the reserve.
Karen Border, the society’s...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Hidden cameras on a nature reserve have recorded the hatching of another cahow chick, the second this season.
JP Rouja, the Nonsuch Expeditions team leader, said the bird broke free from its egg on Nonsuch Island on Sunday with researchers, students ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian park has joined a scheme to preserve forests in Commonwealth countries.
The Walsingham Nature Reserve, known as Tom Moore’s Jungle, is the first in a British Overseas Territory to be accepted by the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. The QCC, a...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Viewers around the world watched a critically endangered cahow chick hatch in Bermuda at the weekend.
Nonsuch Expedition’s CahowCam project broadcast a hatching live from Nonsuch Island on Friday night — the eighth year cameras have been used to stre...
DATE: Mar 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes