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Trott Family Presents $2000 Donation To BZSFriday, January 10, 2014
In order to honour their grandparents, the family of the late Wakefield and Mildred Trott recently embarked on their own fundraising campaign in order to make a donation of $2,000 to the Bermuda Zoological Society.
Turtle Missing Flipper Ready To Return To Wild
Friday, January 10, 2014
After over a year of recuperating at the Bermuda, Aquarium, Museum & Zoo [BAMZ] after sustaining a severe injury that saw him lose one of his flippers, a turtle is ready to be returned to the wild.
Bermuda’s Coral Reefs featured in new book
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Bermuda’s coral reefs have been featured in a new book which helps to showcase them to a global audience, and the information contained in it will be a key reference for our school children, Minister of Environment and Planning Sylvan Richards said today.
Two fish recognised as unique to Island’s waters
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
A pair of Bermuda fish species have been recognised by the Smithsonian Institution as being unique to Bermuda’s waters.
Two Unique Bermuda Fish Recognised
Monday, December 02, 2013
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution recently recognised two new Bermuda endemic fish species. The Collette’s half beak and the Yellowfin Chromis have been known for some time, but they were only recently determined to be unique to Bermuda’s waters.
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Published Dec 21, 2015 at 11:41 am (Updated Dec 21, 2015 at 11:41 am)
Lynda Johnson of the Bermuda Zoological Society receives a cheque from
Marie-Joelle Chapleau, chief operating officer of Global Indemnity Reinsurance
Efforts to study and promote marine turtles have been boosted by a donation from Global Indemnity Reinsurance.
The Bermuda Zoological Society released a statement thanking the group for a gift towards the community project which has “global implications”.
For more than 16 years, the International Course on the Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles has served 140 students from the Caribbean and North Atlantic.
According to the press release, the aim of the Bermuda Turtle Project is to further the understanding of the biology of endangered marine turtles, in order to promote their conservation in Bermuda and worldwide.
Bermuda’s immature green turtles have been the focus of a tagging study initiated in 1968 by Dr HC Frick, and is one of the first scientific investigations of this species in their juvenile developmental habitat.
Chief operating officer Marie-Joelle Chapleau stated: “It was with great pleasure that Global Indemnity Re included the BZS in its charitable giving.
“To know that our donation will provide leadership support of the Bermuda Turtle Project is significant, particularly considering the turtle hatching event earlier this year.”
Until this summer there had been no evidence of green turtles nesting in Bermuda since the 1930s, but in August a bounty of almost 90 hatched green sea turtle eggs was discovered at the site of what is believed to be the first on-Island hatchlings for 100 years.
These hatchlings are believed to be the result of a translocation project conducted here between 1968 and 1978 when eggs from Costa Rica were buried on the Island.