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BZS just misses out on award recognising use of drone technologyMonday, November 07, 2022
An island charity was shortlisted for an international award for its use of drone programming.
The Bermuda Zoological Society was nominated for a Drone Deploy Award for its use of Drone Deploy, an internet-based drone mapping programme.
BAMZ interns get hands-on experience in range of roles
Friday, October 21, 2022
Over the summer the Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS) had the privilege of affording a multitude of student summer positions at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo (BAMZ), through internship programme placements and volunteer opportunities. Within these roles the students were able to gain industry experience, explore the different areas of the facility, gain volunteer hours for their academic year, and acquire mentorships for their future within the industry of environmental studies and conservation.
Event to give young people a say in Blue Prosperity Plan
Friday, October 21, 2022
Young people were invited to provide input on how Bermuda can mitigate long-term threats such as climate change as part of a consultation on The Draft Blue Prosperity Plan.
We cannot give up hope, says turtle advocate
Friday, October 14, 2022
One of the highlights of the year for Gaëlle Roth is the Bermuda Turtle Project’s annual turtle round-up.
For two-weeks every August, D Roth, director of the project, scientists and conservation students, come together to capture, weigh, measure, examine, tag and release turtles in local waters.
Work of Bermuda scientists to be highlighted at New York event
Saturday, October 08, 2022
The Atlantic Conservation Partnership, a sister organisation to the Bermuda Zoological Society, in partnership with The Explorers Club NYC, will host Heart of the Sargasso Sea: Bermuda's Marine Conservation on October 13 at The Explorers Club headquarters.
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By Sarah Lagan
Published Mar 13, 2015 at 8:00 am (Updated Mar 13, 2015 at 12:55 am)
Jennifer Gray
New data about Bermuda’s sea turtles, including research tracing the journey of young animals from Bermuda to foreign shores, is to be presented at an upcoming talk.
Bermuda Turtle Project co-ordinator Jennifer Gray will host the talk at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on March 26.
She told The Royal Gazette: “The talk will cover the amazing history of sea turtle research and how it has influenced the region. I’ll be including all the new discoveries we have found through high tech tools. We have had our first recorded cases of sea turtles that grew up in Bermuda successfully reaching a nesting beach overseas and reproducing. I think there has only been one previous case of a turtle being followed from its immature status to a successful reproducing.”
The Bermuda Turtle Project is a partnership with Bermuda Zoological Society, Atlantic Conservation Partnership, Department of Conservation Services, Sea Turtle Conservancy and Chevron.
Ms Gray’s illustrated talk will include details about the project’s efforts in educating other countries to come up to the same standards of conservation that Bermuda has.
“We are teaching students, resource managers and conservation managers in other countries who share this resource with us.
“One thing Bermuda can be very proud of it is how we are sharing our knowledge and building the ability of these managers in other parts of the region to either engage in similar scientific research or influence positive policy and political change that leads to better conservation overseas.
“Every year we invite people from overseas as part of the project.”
There will be some information about the Critter Cams used on BAMZ turtles by the Sea Grass Group at Conservation Services.
“The two scientific projects dovetailed beautifully because their group studies the habitat and we study the turtles and there is a lot of overlap.”
Ms Gray said that Bermuda’s turtle population is among the healthiest in the world.
“We have an extremely healthy population.
“We see none of the diseases you see in other populations — they are robust and their habitat is relatively healthy. We are still taking in injured animals from human activity, plastics, entanglement, and boat collisions but generally speaking it is one of the best places to be in the world if you are a sea turtle.”