227 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Environment"
The Island’s waste recycling service will continue “as far as we know”, according to Waste Management’s education and enforcement officer, Vanese Gordon.
But recycling is doomed to remain a money-losing enterprise, especially for an Island jurisdicti...
DATE: Mar 11, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Students are being offered the chance to learn about the Island’s marine environment from world-class South African free diver Hanli Prinsloo.
She is taking part in the upcoming Kids on the Reef programme, in which middle school pupils practice skil...
DATE: Feb 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Efforts to protect Bermuda’s sea turtles have suffered another blow.
Just weeks after a petition was launched to help the endangered species — following the death of a turtle hit by a jet ski — another has had its flipper amputated at the Bermuda Aqu...
DATE: Jul 25, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A member of Greenrock Bermuda joined almost 100 representatives from 60 other countries at the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) General Assembly in Copenhagen.
Abbie Caldas, manager for the Bermuda Eco-Schools programme, took part in a co...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Youngsters at Victor Scott Primary are making a big difference by finding ways to reduce the amount of trash being thrown out, and switching off lights and air conditioning when rooms are not in use to save electricity.
“We’re using 1,000 kilowatts p...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Lower electricity bills, less trash being thrown out and the school’s garden benefiting from plentiful rich compost are some of the tangible results West Pembroke Primary is reaping thanks to a proactive green initiative that started at the end of la...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Environmentalists have voiced concerns after MPs backed amendments to a law aimed at protecting the Island’s wildlife.
The changes will allow the destruction of habitats of protected species — but only if alternative homes or captive breeding can be...
DATE: Jun 14, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Government has devised a war plan to reduce numbers of invasive lionfish in Bermuda’s waters.
Health and Environment Minister Trevor Moniz said that the strategy provided “a guide and cohesive long-term plan on how to tackle this problem based on exp...
DATE: May 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A lack of progress following public consultation regarding the Blue Halo initiative has director Chris Flook concerned that Government is flagging in its commitment to creating a maritime nature reserve.
More than seven months since the public consul...
DATE: Apr 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A group of Bermuda’s young people have signed a declaration committing themselves to protecting the Sargasso Sea.
Students taking part in the 2014 Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS) Environmental Youth Conference collaborated on the declaration and sig...
DATE: Mar 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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