11 results returned for search: "\\\"Bermuda Rock Skink\\\" AND " category "News"
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 Bermudian species of fern is on the edge of extinction, according to an international “red list” of endangered species.
The Governor Laffan’s Fern and the Bermuda Shield Fern have both been included in the International Union for the Conservation o...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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.
M...
DATE: Jun 07, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
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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Conservationists are calling for protection to be stepped up for Bermuda's latest addition to it's native list the diamondback terrapin.
A study published in January's addition of TheRoyal Society's Biology Letter's states definitively that the diamo...
DATE: Apr 01, 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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