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A seabird native to an island off the coast of Brazil was recently spotted off the coast of Bermuda, flying with a group of cahows.
According to the Bermuda Audubon Society’s winter newsletter, a small group taking part in bird-banding studies on Non...
DATE: Dec 23, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Access to Southlands has been restricted to walkers only in a bid to tackle illegal dumping.
The two entrance gates to the beauty spot on South Road have been locked to prevent vehicles driving into Southlands and new signs have been erected to deter...
DATE: Dec 23, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A pioneering conservation project to reintroduce a rare species of fern that has been extinct in the wild for more than 100 years has begun to bear fruit.
The Governor Laffan’s fern was last seen growing in Bermuda in 1905 and efforts to reestablish ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The mountain of blue bags outside the Devon Springs Recycling Centre stems from continued operational problems at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF), the Ministry of Public Works has confirmed.
The unsightly pile-up of TAG (tin, aluminium and glass...
DATE: Dec 23, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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It gets bigger each year: the gathering at Elbow Beach on Christmas Day brings together thousands of revellers armed with Santa hats and coolers.
Accordingly, the Coral Beach & Tennis Club is opening the Horizons property close by for free parking, a...
DATE: Dec 23, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Efforts to study and promote marine turtles have been boosted by a donation from Global Indemnity Reinsurance.
The Bermuda Zoological Society released a statement thanking the group for a gift towards the community project which has “global implicati...
DATE: Dec 21, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The Island has no pass or fail criteria in place for vehicle emissions, according to Donal Smith, the owner of Bermuda Emissions Control — the company that tests emissions as part of checks for the Transport Control Department.
“I’m not trying to bea...
DATE: Dec 18, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Environmentalist groups have welcomed the Bermuda Government’s stated aim to move towards “least cost, high quality and sustainable” electricity.
This week, the Bermuda Government tabled the Electricity Bill, which will open up the Island’s power gen...
DATE: Dec 18, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The Bermuda Audubon Society has recently released two new bird identification cards to help new birdwatchers.
One card features all of Bermuda’s breeding birds with migratory land birds on the reverse side, while the second card features Bermuda’s se...
DATE: Dec 17, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Bermuda’s clean air efforts were the subject of an address by Donal Smith, the former deputy mayor of Hamilton, at the world climate change conference in Paris.
Mr Smith, the chief executive officer of Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd, described the dev...
DATE: Dec 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
