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Tourists have stolen tonnes of Bermuda’s trademark pink sand from beaches, The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has revealed. It is estimated air visitors alone take a total of about three tonnes of sand a year when they leave — more t...

A decision to allow a quarry operation near a Bermuda National Trust reserve will be appealed, the charity said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the BNT said that the organisation had submitted an objection to the Development Applications Board over the ...

A Bermudian film-maker’s documentary about the lives of humpback whales has won an award at a conservation film festival in New York. Secret Lives of the Humpbacks, which examined the role that Bermuda plays in the lives of the animals, received the ...

Bermuda’s national bird has bounced back from the brink of extinction with a record-breaking breeding season. Jeremy Madeiros, the chief terrestrial conservation officer for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said in the Bermuda Aud...

He could have climbed his way up the reinsurance ladder but Alex Godfrey knew it wasn’t his path. So, he quit his job as a catastrophe modeller at Chubb and went off to China. He intended that the yearlong post in marketing at Dulwich International H...

The first five bluebird eggs of the nesting season have been sighted. The Happy Bird Company said the eggs were laid about ten days ago and will begin hatching over the next few days. Christian Chin-Gurret, the designer of the easy-to-build Bluebird ...

One of the world’s rarest seabirds has nested on Bermuda again after a gap of nearly 170 years, an environmental organisation said yesterday. The Audubon Society said a pair of roseate terns (Sterna dougallii) built a nest on a small nature reserve i...

Millions are mourning a gorilla, and that’s a good sign for humanity. Koko, a western lowland gorilla, died in her sleep at age 46 this week. Koko started learning a version of American Sign Language adapted for apes when she was a year old, and 45 ...

A six-foot hammerhead shark spotted cruising close to the shore is unlikely to be a threat to humans, marine experts said yesterday. Choy Aming, who has researched the creatures for 12 years as part of the Bermuda Shark Project, said that it is not u...

Fishermen should protect wildlife this month as seabirds migrate through Bermuda’s waters. Andrew Dobson, president of the Bermuda Audubon Society, said tens of thousands of great shearwaters pass the island every May as they move to the North Atlant...

One of the largest plunge divers in the world made a rare and spectacular appearance off the North Shore. A northern gannet, which boasts a wingspan of 6ft, was spotted fishing off the coastline and in St George’s Harbour. According to the Bermuda Au...

Dear Sir, I am concerned about whether chickens are being culled in a humane manner. Recently I came across two of six poisoned chickens. I don’t know how long it takes them to die, but one was gasping her last and the other was trying to raise her ...