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The Government must conduct a robust public consultation before the development of a sustainable offshore fishing industry, a conservation action group has said. Plans to create a marine protected area that prohibits fishing – as well as a fishery – ...

Volunteers helped plant 70 trees in the grounds of Government House at the weekend to celebrate the Queen’s platinum anniversary as monarch next year. The scheme was the brainchild of the Bermuda Botanical Society. Jennifer Flood, the president of th...

It will be illegal to fish all but three species of shark under legislation being drafted, the Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed. A ministry spokesman said that commercial fishermen would be allowed to catch Galapagos and smooth dogfish, the two...

The catching of some species of shark could soon be outlawed in Bermuda, the minister responsible for the environment has revealed. Walter Roban, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Deputy Premier, told The Royal Gazette that legislation is curren...

Young Bermudians will get the chance to meet trailblazer activists from around the world at a major climate change summit to be held on the island next month. The youngest member on the US White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a 14-year...

Bermuda has joined forces with Caribbean countries in a research project designed to examine the lives of Atlantic whales. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has teamed up with the Caribbean Marine Mammals’ Passive Acoustic Observato...

A historic Bermudian tree which was the oldest living exhibit in a Scottish botanic garden has at last come down. Workmen moved in to a Victorian glasshouse at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, home to the palmetto – scientific name Sabal Bermud...

Three International experts have been signed up to strengthen conservation efforts in the Sargasso Sea. The trio – Mark Spalding, Stephen de Mora, and Ana Colaço – have been made members of Sargasso Sea Commission, established by the Hamilton Declara...

Dear Sir, Yet another government property has been allowed to deteriorate. Why have successive governments permitted so many buildings to deteriorate and, when it is too late, end up spending considerable amounts of taxpayers’ money to restore them t...

Dear Sir, I refer to today’s (August 17, 2021) rightful clarion call by Jennifer Gray, who has so effectively headed Bermuda’s Turtle Project for so very many years. As an internationally patented inventor, I respectfully suggest the following in the...

Dear Sir, It was with shock and sadness that my family opened The Royal Gazette on Monday, May 31, 2021, to see that Wanda Bluefort has taken to the newspaper to gain public support in what is a private matter between the neighbours of Sleepy Hollow ...

Dear Sir, Bermuda cedar trees were dormant for more than 50 years and started to return in the 1990s. At that time, Bermudians were encouraged to “Plant a Tree in ’93”. On behalf of the Sleepy Hollow residents, myself and Mr Goater planted cedar tree...