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Videos/Photos: Start Of ‘Tour De Turtles Race’
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

This morning marked the official start of the race with one turtle being released at Clearwater Beach in St David’s.


Turtles to be released and tracked
Friday, August 10, 2012

At least five green sea turtles with attached satellite transmitters are being released from Clearwater Beach next week.


Tour de Turtles Bermuda: ‘Race On The Rock’
Thursday, August 09, 2012

“Tour de Turtles Bermuda: Race On The Rock” will kick off next week and will see green turtles fitted with GPS satellite transmitters to enable researchers to track their every movement as they “race” across the seas.


Volunteers clean up BAMZ
Thursday, July 26, 2012

​Some 70 students and volunteers from eleven companies participated in The Centre on Philanthropy’s Community Day.


Saving our 'floating golden rainforest' at a local level
Friday, July 13, 2012

FRIDAY, JUNE 13: The Bermuda Alliance for Sargasso Sea formed last June with the intention of supporting a government led plan to protect the Sargasso Sea and the multitude of species that live within it. The Bermuda Sun sat down with four of the BASS member charities to discuss their mission so far.



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BZS wins the KBB Environmental Partner Award
Bermuda Zoological Society
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

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Dr. Jamie Bacon and Dr. Alex Amat holding the KBB Environmental Partner Award

On Wednesday, 22nd February the Bermuda Zoological Society's Education department was awarded the KBB Environmental Partner Award for the 2016 Environmental Youth Conference and the Aqua Explorers Camps at the KBB Awards Presentation and AGM.  Dr. Jamie Bacon, Education Officer at BZS, and Dr. Alex Amat, Educator & Youth Activities Coordinator at BZS, accepted the award on behalf of the Education department.

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Last year, the theme of the Environmental Youth Conference was "Managing the Environmental Impact of America's Cup-35". The conference saw sixty M3-S4 student delegates and their teachers from the island's public and private schools attend the two-day event. Strategic partnerships within the America's Cup community, in particular 11th Hour Racing, a programme of The Schmidt Family Foundation, as well as ACEA and ACBDA, used the conference platform to promote environmental sustainability throughout AC-35 racing by spreading awareness to Bermuda's students and providing solutions to keep our fragile marine environment healthy. The students learned about the enormity of hosting an event like the America's Cup, the challenges that must be addressed in order to prevent it from having a detrimental effect on Bermuda's fragile environment, and the solutions that are being proposed. They were able to participate in a variety of workshops, including conducting ecological monitoring of the Great Sound from the BZS floating classroom Endurance, toured relevant sailing and boat building exhibits at the National Museum, toured Team Oracle's base and participated in STEAM hands-on activities. They visited the reverse osmosis and sewage treatment plants in Dockyard to understand how these facilities are able to handle the influx of thousands of visitors, including up to 100 mega yachts, and concluded the conference by designing models of environmentally sustainable Americas Cup Event Villages. 

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The BZS Explorers camp ran for 4 weeks last summer, and on average had 14 kids in each week. The camp's focus was on a "World Without Fish". Dr. Alex Amat discussed the effects of over-fishing, pollution and plastics with the campers and they explored the problem the world would face without heathly ocean habitats. The campers spent time cleaning up Trunk Island, Harrington Sound and Coney Island, and then took the trash they collected and turned it into art. 

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