18 results returned for search: "\\\"Bermuda Skink\\\" AND " category "Environment"
For the first time, the endangered Bermuda Skink has been bred outside of the island — at the Chester Zoo.
The breeding programme in tandem with the British zoo, begun in 2013, has just yielded a total of seven hatchlings — a milestone in the species...
DATE: Sep 10, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Environmental groups have urged walkers to stop piling rocks on top of each other in the island’s national parks.
The Bermuda Audubon Society and the Bermuda National Trust say the practice of prising rocks from the natural formations and creating to...
DATE: Dec 07, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A two-year conservation project studying Bermuda’s anoles has uncovered a new species as well as lifting the lid on how the lizard population has expanded across the Island.
The initiative was led by Florida International University’s James Stroud an...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Discarded glass and plastics bottles strewn along the coastline have become a death trap for one of the Island’s most endangered animals.
Earlier this summer, wildlife ecologist Mark Outerbridge and British student Helena Turner embarked on a pioneer...
DATE: Jul 02, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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BEST chairman Stuart Hayward has called for stronger measures to protect Bermuda’s trees and animal species.
Addressing the Rotary Club yesterday he also urged caution over new plans to build a series of marinas across the Island.
Mr Hayward advocate...
DATE: Sep 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Increased fines of up to $25,000 have been brought in to better protect Bermuda’s endangered species.
The move comes as the Protected Species Amendment Act was passed by the House of Assembly although the Opposition complained the new rules could be ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
After two years of “sweat and hard work” HSBC Bermuda will tomorrow open more acreage of Cooper's Island Nature Reserve to the public.
Bank CEO Phil Butterfield spoke yesterday on what he called the opening of an “absolutely outstanding piece of pro...
DATE: Jun 17, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Government needs your help in tracking two recently introduced species of lizard.
The Department of Conservation Services within the Ministry of Public Works yesterday advised that two geckos, the Mediterranean or Turkish gecko, (Hemidactylus turcicu...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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