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Education minister Cole Simons chaired the third joint meeting of the Sargasso Sea Commission and the Signatories to the Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea in Horta, Azores.
According to a press release, pa...
DATE: May 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The relocation of turtles for the America’s Cup presents a host of ethical dilemmas, according to environmentalist Stuart Hayward.
According to the Bermuda Government, temporarily moving turtles from the Great Sound to an ocean enclosure will protect...
DATE: May 15, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Botanical Gardens action group Take Back Our Park has expressed concern over plans to amend legislation governing Bermuda’s parks.
The Ministry of the Environment has stated it will table amendments to the National Parks Act, including turning Southl...
DATE: May 15, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A new addition at the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club marina will look to play a small part in cleaning up ocean trash.
The device — called a Seabin — is affixed to docks and marinas to siphon plastic, debris, detergents and oil from the water befo...
DATE: May 13, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The surest way to secure Bermuda’s reef fishing industry is to impose further restrictions and a ban on the sale of certain species according to lifelong fisherman Alan Card.
Members of Bermuda’s fishing communities have weighed in on a report rele...
DATE: May 11, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Sea turtles are being temporarily relocated from the Great Sound to keep them out of harm’s way during the America’s Cup.
They will be homed in a purpose-built ocean enclosure near the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo in an operation involving America...
DATE: May 07, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A government department dedicated to ensuring the island’s sustainability has been dismantled, leading green campaigners to fear that environmental issues are not a priority.
The Sustainable Development Department was formed to put into action the Su...
DATE: Apr 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The underwater war being waged on Bermuda’s lionfish took a giant leap forward yesterday morning as a prototype submersible robot caught one of the invasive predators via remote access.
A hefty team of scientists, conservationists and roboticists ga...
DATE: Apr 19, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The island’s largest dairy herd got its first taste of a happier and healthier life yesterday as a state-of-the-art shelter officially opened.
The huge shed, which is fitted with fans, misting equipment and spongy flooring, will help reduce heat stre...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A satellite transmitter crucial to the Bermuda Turtle Project has been found by a reef diver in the Bahamas.
The equipment was used to chart the progress of Hardy, a green turtle who swam 1,000 miles from Bermuda to the Caribbean country last year.
I...
DATE: Apr 13, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff