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Turtle Hill Golf Club & BAMZ Turtle ProjectWednesday, September 04, 2013
The Fairmont Southampton’s Championship Par 3 golf course, The Turtle Hill Golf Club, is living up to its name. The golf club was rebranded to the current name in October 2012 to portray an authentically local name, and to bring awareness to the sea turtle preservation efforts in Bermuda.
Back to school strategising
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
I love the smell of newly sharpened pencils. Never mind the thrill of buying a new pencil case! I have a bit of a ‘thing’ for stationery but particularly when it’s mixed with the buzz of anticipation that comes with the start of a new year at school.
More Reef Watch teams needed
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The Bermuda Zoological Society is looking for at least six more volunteer teams to participate in Reef Watch on August 31.
Want to help with reef research? You can still sign up
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
There is still time for volunteers to sign up to this Saturday’s Reef Watch event which will use teams of volunteer citizen scientists to monitor the health of Bermuda’s economically important reef systems.
Countdown To BZS’s “Reef Watch” Event
Monday, August 26, 2013
Excitement is mounting as teams have been registering for the upcoming Reef Watch which will be held on Saturday, August 31.
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By Owain Johnson-Barnes
Published Apr 25, 2014 8:00 am
Three local environmental projects will be partially funded by the newly-launched Catlin Marine Grant.
The grant, launched by the Bermuda End-to-End Charitable Trust earlier this year and sponsored by Catlin Bermuda, is intended to provide $100,000 of funding over three years for valuable marine research projects.
Chair of the End-to-End Charitable Trust Anne Mello: “A total of nine charities made applications for funds from the Catlin Marine Grant.
“We were able to settle on three deserving projects, run by established organisations, which together meet the goals of the grant.”
The largest of the awards was given to the BREAM project, a research programme aimed at collecting data about the Island’s reefs. Over the past five years, the project has mapped all of the coral reefs on the Bermuda Platform to a Geographic Information System, making the data available to the public.
The grant will help support the project for the next three years, supporting scientific studies of the outer rim of the coral reefs surrounding Bermuda.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful also received a grant to help its Washed Ashore project, through which the charity hopes to look at the garbage washing up on Bermuda’s shores and determine if the pollution is local or coming from overseas.
And the Bermuda National Trust’s Monofilament Recovery and Recycling Programme will also receive a boost through the grant, which will pay for ten new fishing line depository bins to be installed at waterside locations around the island.
President and CEO of Catlin Bermuda Graham Pewter said: “The goal for the three-year life of the Catlin Marine Grant is to encourage projects which have measurable outcomes and are sustainable over time.
“It was our wish, in creating this $100,000 grant, to support meaningful initiatives within the local charitable and scientific community. We are pleased to be able to fulfil this.”