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-- to protect an endangered species.
Biologists based at the aquarium are preparing a captive breeding programme to start a new colony of Bermuda skinks.
They will find a pair of the tiny lizards, which are indigenous to Bermuda, and try to begin a b...
DATE: Dec 22, 1997
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A Bermudian mini-Jurassic Park is packed with robust little reptiles, a top university lecturer revealed yesterday.
For Southampton Island in Castle Harbour is home to a thriving population of hundreds of Bermuda's unique lizard -- the tiny skink.
Un...
DATE: Aug 04, 1997
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A Bermudian mini-Jurassic Park is packed with robust little reptiles.
Southampton Island in Castle Harbour is home to a thriving population of hundreds of Bermuda's unique lizard -- the tiny skink. ---- Page 2 JASKSON TOUNEY TO BE SHOWN FNR GLF T...
DATE: Aug 04, 1997
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BIU JUST BREAKING EVEN UNS BIU just breaking even The Bermuda Industrial Union spent about $3,000 dollars less than it earned over the last financial year, its most recently audited financial report shows. ---- Page 2 CUSTOMS NABBIN PASSENGERS CU...
DATE: Jul 28, 1997
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A University of London professor is visiting the Island to help conduct a study on the status of Bermuda's own endemic, terrestrial reptile, the skink.
The study, under the direction of John Davenport, is being funded by the Ministry of Works and Eng...
DATE: Jul 28, 1997
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A study to discover the population of a unique Bermuda species on a small isolated island is to be launched -- possibly halting plans to explore a centuries old fort.
Scientists are about to study the Skink population on Southampton Island where arch...
DATE: May 13, 1997
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One of Bermuda's few unique species is being endangered by development and wild cats.
The Bermuda skink has been placed on the critically endangered list by the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources -- the recognised guide for...
DATE: Feb 17, 1997
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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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A Customs officer was anything but charmed this week when she went to search the luggage of a returning resident and found a huge snake.
Government is not thrilled about the 31 -foot ball python, either. The unidentified man who brought it in as a gi...
DATE: Feb 02, 1995
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