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The importation of exotic pets like snakes is illegal, the Government warned yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources said: “The adverse impacts of invasive species are considered to be the single greatest ...

The Bermuda Turtle Project is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a lecture series featuring international experts. The series is set to begin on April 26 with David Godfrey, executive director of the Sea Turtle Conservancy in Florida, giving an il...

A reinsurance company has donated $12,500 to the Bermuda Turtle Project. Global Indemnity Re, which has supported the Bermuda Zoological Society for four years, made the donation to mark the turtle conservation scheme’s 50th anniversary. Marie Joell...

Akinyi Apopa and Amber Reid are the winners of the Bermuda Zoological Society’s Steinhoff Scholarship for 2017. The students, who receive $5,000 each, were chosen for their outstanding scholastic achievement and community service, according to a pres...

Catlin Kids made a big splash as a Bermuda Zoological Society environmental programme completed its fifth successful year. This year’s annual two-day workshop saw the establishment of a “living classroom”, which allowed Bermudian schoolchildren to ex...

A satellite transmitter crucial to the Bermuda Turtle Project has been found by a reef diver in the Bahamas. The equipment was used to chart the progress of Hardy, a green turtle who swam 1,000 miles from Bermuda to the Caribbean country last year. I...

A stricken turtle that was nursed back to health by aquarium staff and successfully released to the wild has travelled more than 1,600 miles to the coast of Florida. Daisy, the loggerhead sea turtle who was rescued by fishermen off North Shore last D...

The Bermuda Zoological Society is looking for teams of researchers to help survey coral reefs around the island. Reef Watch will take place on Saturday, September 24, and/or Sunday, September 25, and organisers are calling on participants to join the...

A loggerhead turtle that underwent life-saving surgery to have a rusting hook removed from her throat could be released to the wild later this spring. The turtle, who was named Daisy by the hospital surgeons responsible for saving her life, has conti...

Nesta Wellman’s passion for conservation and wildlife runs deep in his veins. It is a passion that was born on his island home and nurtured during his time at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo. Now the 24-year-old naturalist, from Warwick, is look...

Saturday was not a typical day at the office for dentist Len Wedlich. Instead of the traditional men, women and children nursing sore teeth he was faced with a very different patient of the four-legged variety. Dr Wedlich from Island Dental was enlis...

A loggerhead turtle that underwent life-saving surgery to remove a rusting hook that had became embedded in her throat has started to eat for herself. The turtle, who has been named Daisy by the hospital surgeons, is continuing to gain weight as she ...