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Bermuda Wild Dolphin Project
Monday, August 29, 2016

Underwater mysteries - Researchers try to learn more about a marvel of the Ocean.


Video: Local Lionfish Experts On PBS Newshour
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Bermuda is featured in a PBS Newshour program about invasive lionfish, with scenes of the island shown, while local marine experts, in conjunction with visiting scientists, appear in a five minute segment that also reveals plans for a prototype lionfish-culling undersea robot.


Ocean Tech Aims To Inspire Young Women
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Global marine research project Ocean Tech is aiming to inspire more young women into science and engineering via a media campaign that focuses on the team’s leading female scientists and engineers.


Female champions of science
Thursday, August 18, 2016

The global research project Ocean Tech, whose chief scientist is Bermuda’s Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley, is encouraging more young women to study science and engineering.


Island to become hub of marine project
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Bermuda is set to be the hub of a new international research project intended to justify the protection of marine environments worldwide.



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All the latest updates and news from the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, one of Bermuda's leading visitor attractions!

Story of the cahow goes international
Bermuda Sun
Friday, October 05, 2012

Sarah Lagan
Writer/Sub-editor

FRIDAY, OCT. 5: The story of how Bermuda’s cahow was brought back from the brink of extinction will hit bookstores across the world next week.

Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction explores the conservation work of Dr David Wingate.

It looks at the pioneering project the island’s former conservation officer first began in 1959 and traces Dr Wingate’s tireless efforts to save the species from extinction.

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Rare Bird: The Cahow is the subject of a
new book by author Elizabeth Gehrman.

*Photo by Chris Burville

The cahow was almost completely wiped out by early settlers and the cats and rats they brought with them. And for 300 years the Bermuda Petrel was thought to be extinct.

But a handful of the species were rediscovered on tiny islands off the east end of Bermuda in 1951.

That discovery prompted Dr Wingate to launch the conservation bid to save the bird.

The programme, which has been continued by Jeremy Madeiros since 2000, has seen the Cahow population recover from just 18 breeding pairs to 100 pairs in 2012.

The new book has been written by Elizabeth Gehrman, who also freelances for the Boston Globe.

And she will return to the island next week to coincide with the book’s release on October 9.

Ms Gehrman will attend a public book signing, along with Dr Wingate, at the Aquarium on Tuesday between 6pm and 7:30pm.