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Conservation groups have accused the Government of forcing through a controversial application for a quarry operation in a pristine natural spot. The Bermuda Audubon Society claimed the go-ahead given to the proposal at Judkin Lane, Hamilton Parish, ...

Tributes were paid last night to the late Jack Lightbourn with an informal ceremony at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. The shell collector, diver and conservationist donated a major part of his world-renowned collection to the BUEI, whe...

Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) and Bermuda College have kicked off a new season of exciting topics for their Eco Lunch & Learn Series II. The series runs on the last Thursday of each month for September, October and November 20...

“Lazarus” snails, thought extinct for years before being discovered found clinging to life in isolated areas, are thriving after being reintroduced to Nonsuch Island. Research shows the greater Bermuda land snail is now reproducing and expanding beyo...

A Bermudian film-maker’s documentary about the lives of humpback whales will be screened at a conservation film festival in New York. Secret Lives of the Humpbacks, which details the role that Bermuda plays in the lives of the animals, will be shown ...

Bernard Park has been decorated with brightly coloured waste bins with help from schoolchildren and Butterfield Bank employees. Staff from the bank worked alongside students from Impact Mentoring Academy, on the Keep Bermuda Beautiful’s Artful Bins p...

Earlier this year I came across a Netflix series on Marie Kondo, the undisputed queen of tidying up. In short, she believes that most of us are living in homes so overfilled with items that our cluttered dwellings are choking our psyches, making us ...

An endangered species of snail saved from extinction by a breeding programme has been released into the wild. More than 11,000 greater Bermuda land snails, bred at a British zoo, have been given a new home on Morgan’s Island, which is owned by the Be...

A lifelong devotion to the environment has earned the former head of the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce a top award from the Catholic Church. Stuart Hayward, also a former independent MP, attended his presentation of a Peace and Justi...

A two-month fishing ban is today to be enforced over an area of water off St George’s to protect a breeding ground for blue-striped grunts. A notice in the Official Gazette said that the minister responsible for the environment was satisfied that the...

Whale watchers were warned yesterday not to swim with the animals or let their boats get too close. Sarah Manuel, a government senior marine conservation officer, said: “Watching these majestic animals, spouting, breaching or swimming along slowly wi...

A conservation group asked tonight for an extension to the public consultation period for the draft Bermuda Plan 2018 due to what it claimed were “significant errors” in maps. The Bermuda National Trust said it feared mistakes that related to its pro...