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A petition calling for Somerset Long Bay in Sandys to be made into a turtle sanctuary has attracted more than 450 signatures. Directed at the newly installed Minister for the Environment, Jeanne Atherden, the petition is now just 30 signatures short ...

Almost 200 turtles have been found dead in Bermuda’s waters in the last six years, with boat strikes accounting for 21 percent of those deaths, according to Conservation Services. A spokeswoman confirmed that 195 turtles have been killed since 2008. ...

After witnessing a jet ski apparently run over a turtle and leave it for dead, a Somerset area resident is joining a call for increased protection for the local sea turtle population. Grace Markham’s plea for greater protection for the sea animals ha...

What appears to be a dead eel was spotted on a beach in the east this week. The eel was nearly five foot long and was unofficially identified as a very bloated moray eel. Here are five facts on the moray eel. 1. There are approximately 200 known mora...

A nine-foot stingray spotted off Horseshoe Bay has been hailed an unprecedented first sighting for local waters. Divers Chris Brown and Gunar Mayer spotted the colossal Roughtail Stingray in an area known as Hangover Hole, about 500 yards off the Sou...

Author and filmmaker Andrew Stevenson’s humpback whale research used to have a certain informality. When the weather was right, he would head out to observe nature’s most elusive marine creatures. Not anymore. Mr Stevenson has formed The Humpback Wh...

Bermudians have more of a “seek forgiveness rather than permission” attitude when it comes to Bermuda’s protected species. Senators yesterday expressed their concerns that residents were continuing to flatten preserved woodland and fish for eagle ray...

The public are being asked to use extra caution on beaches after hundreds of jellyfish and Portuguese Man o’ War have washed up on the Island’s shores. Yesterday, members of the public told The Royal Gazette that they saw thousands of the stinging cr...