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Bermuda hailed for turtle conservation role
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Green turtles have been removed from the endangered species list in Florida, with a researcher saying Bermuda played an important role.


College Class Visits Trunk Island ‘Classroom’
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The Bermuda College’s Introduction to Biology students were given the special treat of having a ‘hands-on’ class on Trunk Island, the Bermuda Zoological Society’s “Living Classroom”.


Author Mykkal to share butterfly photos
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Author Ras Mykkal will be sharing his spectacular collection of butterfly photographs when he talks at the latest Bermuda Zoological Society lecture next week.


Stitches removed from loggerhead turtle
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

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.


Photos: Injured Turtle Has Stitches Removed
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Daisy — the loggerhead turtle that has been residing at the Bermuda Museum, Aquarium & Zoo since she underwent life-saving surgery to remove a rusting hook in her throat three months ago — has had her stitches removed and it is hoped she can be released back into the wild in late spring/early summer.



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Video: Bermuda Skink Visits Cahow Burrow
Bernews
Thursday, January 11, 2018


The camera set up to film Cahows on Nonsuch Island recently caught an unusual visitor, with a critically endangered Bermuda skink stopping by the burrow, wandering around and taking a rather close look at the camera.

“A Bermuda Skink was recently filmed visiting the CahowCam burrow as we wait for the female to return to lay her egg. Historically, they also have a long-standing, important relationship with the Cahows as they help keep the nests clean,” the Nonsuch Island website noted.

“The total island-wide [hence global] population was estimated to be 2300-3500 individuals,” the website notes. “Surveys conducted on Nonsuch over the past 50 years suggest the population is declining and those skinks that remain are only found in a few locations on the island.”

“The creation of the two cahow nesting sites is expected to benefit the skinks; as the cahow colony grows on Nonsuch, so too should the skink colony.”

Last year, seven skinks hatched at Chester Zoo, the first time conservationists have bred the critically endangered species outside their homeland of Bermuda.

A few years ago the Bermuda Government noted that the island’s skink population was “pushed to the edge of extinction,” becoming “one of the rarest lizards in the world,” so arranged for 12 skinks to ‘emigrate’ to the UK in order to start a captive breeding program at the Chester Zoo.