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The Progressive Labour Party announces its candidate for Warwick North East at a press conference
DATE: Jan 29, 2025
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The fight to protect the critically endangered Bermuda Skink has found a new ally — the UK’s Chester Zoo.
A total of 12 skinks will soon be taken to the zoo in an effort to develop a captive breeding programme for the critically endangered species.
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DATE: Jun 07, 2013
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda is reknowned for its beauty, but away from the pink beaches and lush undergrowth, the Island's environment is facing challenges.
For instance, there is only one tuft of Bermuda Moss left on the Island and several other species such as the Gov...
DATE: Jul 17, 2009
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Governor Laffan's Fern
Named after Governor Sir Robert Laffan's fondness for this plant, this fern was found in the Walsingham-Harrington Sound area but it died out at the start of the 1900s.
Several specimens were housed at the Botanical Gardens un...
DATE: Jul 17, 2009
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Dalton E. Tucker primary school just opened their brand new library and selected Bermudian author Joanne Burgess to be featured at the event.
Principal Mr. Gladstone Thompson and members of the PTA decided four years ago to clear out a storage room f...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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ONE of the most enduring forms of folk literature passed down from person to person throughout history is the fable.
Differing from the traditional story, a fable is a short narrative that makes a moral point, traditionally by means of animal or plan...
DATE: Nov 28, 2008
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The Bermuda skink is internationally recognised as a critically endangered species and needs the co-operation of everyone to ensure its survival claimed the Bermuda Biodiversity Project Department of Conservation Services.
It is estimated that there ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2003
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This is the full text of a profile of David Wingate by Ianthe Jeanne Dugan featured in yesterday's Wall Street Journal.
NONSUCH ISLAND, Bermuda (Wall Street Journal) -- When David Wingate was a boy, other kids taunted him, he says, because he had a s...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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an expedition to study biodiversity in Zambia.
For one year, Mr. Raine will lead 14 Greenforce volunteers in Kafue National Park, 200 miles west of Lusaka, the capital and near the border with Zimbabwe.
He will act as scientific coordinator while the...
DATE: Dec 18, 1998
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He -- or is it she? -- is believed to be the first lizard of its kind to have come to these shores.
About six inches long, with an orange head and bronze body, the five line Florida skink made its passage here yesterday on a ship's container.
And, we...
DATE: Apr 13, 1995
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