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The UK Government announced the creation of a new $3.2 million environment and climate fund to help protect and preserve the environmental assets of UK Overseas Territories.
The new fund brings together existing UK Government funding from the Departm...
DATE: Nov 06, 2012
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Environment
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The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) has hailed the creation of the Lodge Point Nature Reserve, but said even more could be done.
Chairman Stuart Hayward said that more of the Ireland Island area should be protected to protect ex...
DATE: Oct 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Minister of Public Works Michael Weeks has hit back at claims by the Opposition that Pembroke Marsh has been neglected, saying remediation work there is ongoing.
Scott Stewart, the One Bermuda Alliance candidate for Pembroke East, made the claim in a...
DATE: Oct 29, 2012
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Environment
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Plans to rebuild a dilapidated church on Morgan’s Point have been recommended for approval by planning officers.
Developers behind the project hope to have the church up and running as soon as construction is completed, even as work on the surroundin...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Swimming around Bermuda wasn’t enough for one of the five tagged turtles in the ‘Tour De Turtles’ research programme — instead it has embarked on an epic swim to Florida.
Intrepid turtle ‘Tucker’ has so far swum almost 400 miles further than any of t...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
A judge has settled a 12-year-old dispute over a St George’s home in favour of a land developer, who will now be able to sell it at last.
The wrangle between Alex Swan from Progressive Realty and Lisa Hollis, of Wellington Slip Road, St George’s, was...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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Environment
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A plot of land in Dockyard was yesterday unveiled as a nature reserve by Wedco.
The quango has spent the past 18 months clearing up the 4.2 acres with assistance from local charities.
Called Lodge Point, the Craddock Road development was a residentia...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Farmer Tom Wadson remains hopeful that feed costs for his pigs will go back down as he continues to look for help from the outside to maintain their quality of living.
Costs for Bermuda’s iconic Spanish hog food has risen 30 percent in the last month...
DATE: Oct 24, 2012
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Environment
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A routine clean-up exercise led by conservationist David Wingate triggered an emergency response by the Bermuda Fire Service and Police.
The marine section was called out around 7pm on Saturday to transport firefighters to an island nature reserve ne...
DATE: Oct 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Dire warnings emerge from recent workshop
By Derek deChabert
Plans are being formulated to rid local waters of Lionfish which are wreaking havoc on the local fish population.
Jim Gleason, executive director of the Ocean Support Foundation, along with...
DATE: Oct 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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