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Hundreds of people were able to watch the hatching of a cahow chick on Nonsuch Island through a streaming live feed this weekend. According to Jeremy Madeiros, senior terrestrial conservation officer at the Department of Conservation, the first stage...

West Pembroke Primary Eco-Club met on Monday at lunchtime. Present at the meeting was Abbie Caldas, Greenrock’s schools programme manager, and Sylvia Hayward, community member assessor for Greenrock. About 20 students and their Eco-Club co-ordinato...

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” — Navajo proverb An international programme from the Foundation for Environmental Education, the Eco-Schools initiative aims to empower students to be the change our su...

Abbie Caldas, the schools programme manager for Greenrock, invited Young Observer to join her at West Pembroke Primary School to learn about what it means and why schools are striving to become Eco-Schools in Bermuda. In its 20th year around the wor...

A young Bermudian aquarist is making waves in some dangerous waters at the Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada. Winston Godwin, who used to work at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, moved to Toronto a year ago with the help of the Bermuda Zoological Soci...

The Warwick Academy Eco-Club is a student-based committee that aims to make positive contributions to the environment and educate Warwick Academy students about healthy living, sustainability, climate change and environmentally friendly technologies,...

Environmentalists have welcomed the move to hold public meetings to discuss the master plan for the America’s Cup event village. Stuart Hayward, the chief advocacy officer of BEST, said in a statement: “BEST is very encouraged by and wants to acknowl...

Anyone interested in Greenrock’s Eco-schools programme can have all their questions answered tomorrow. The charity is hosting a resource fair at Warwick Academy and those keen to learn about the programme can attend between 4pm and 6pm. Participati...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce has won a Supreme Court appeal against the handling of the South Basin project. BEST launched legal action against the Development Applications Board (DAB) and the minister responsible for planning a...