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Catlin Seaview Survey Launches Pinterest Page

Catlin Seaview Survey Launches Pinterest Page

The Catlin Seaview Survey team is sharing images from the teams latest experiences on the image sharing website Pinterest, with their underwater images including turtles, fish, manta rays and more., Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited is sponsoring the major scientific expedition that is documenting the composition and health of sections of Australia’s... Read more of this article

Videos/Photos: Start Of ‘Tour De Turtles Race’

Videos/Photos: Start Of ‘Tour De Turtles Race’

The “Tour de Turtles Bermuda: Race On The Rock” got underway this morning [Aug 14] with green turtles fitted with GPS satellite transmitters setting off on their three-month Tour de Turtles “race”. This morning marked the official start of the race with one turtle being released at Clearwater Beach in St David’s. After having her... Read more of this article

Tour de Turtles Bermuda: ‘Race On The Rock’

Tour de Turtles Bermuda: ‘Race On The Rock’

“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. The public is invited to Clearwater Beach to see the turtle’s release under the Start Gate. This free event... Read more of this article

Study Documents Sea Turtle Grazing In Bermuda

Study Documents Sea Turtle Grazing In Bermuda

The Department of Conservation Services is presently undertaking a week long study of the grazing habits of Green Turtles feeding in the seagrass meadows on Bermuda’s reef platform. A spokesperson said, “Both Green turtles and seagrass are listed under the Protected Species Act 2003 and it essential that we improve our understanding of this... Read more of this article

Upcoming: Threat Of Plastic Pollution In Oceans

Upcoming: Threat Of Plastic Pollution In Oceans

In 2010 scientists Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins), who are studying plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, visited Bermuda to study  the  Atlantic “Garbage Patch” [pictured] which exists in the waters off the island. Similar to one in the Pacific identified in the 1990s, the floating garbage from the North American mainland —... Read more of this article

Bermuda: ‘Where Sea Turtles Grow Up’

Bermuda: ‘Where Sea Turtles Grow Up’

Bermuda is the place where young sea turtles go to grow up, a Florida scientist who has spent his career studying the animals told environmental website OurAmazingPlanet today. Dr. Peter Meylan, a professor of natural sciences at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, along with his research partner and wife Ann Meylan, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife... Read more of this article

Bermuda Role In Unlocking Turtle Secrets

Bermuda Role In Unlocking Turtle Secrets

Sea turtles famously return to their birthplace to nest but new research — some of it conducted in Bermuda — suggests this isn’t the only big migration in a sea turtle’s life. “We’re starting to realise that developmental migrations — ones that sea turtles make before they mature — are even more amazing,” says Dr. Peter... Read more of this article

Island’s Rare Diamondback Terrapins

Island’s Rare Diamondback Terrapins

The Diamondback Terrapin Project was initiated in 2006 by Bermudian scientist Mark Outerbridge to fill enormous gaps in our knowledge of a recently discovered species that has now been added to Bermuda’s native fauna list. The tiny Bermuda population of diamondback terrapins at the East End of the island is believed to be the only population breeding... Read more of this article

Video: Baby Turtles Released

Video: Baby Turtles Released

Baby loggerheads hatched by the Bermuda Turtle Project —  seen being released and scrambling into the sea in this video – underscore the initiative’s ongoing efforts to repopulate the island’s waters. Five of the world’s seven sea turtle species are known to occur in Bermuda waters. And nearly all sea turtles found in... Read more of this article

Protected Species Penalties Toughened

Protected Species Penalties Toughened

New measures approved by Parliament on Friday [Nov.25] stiffen penalties for harming the island’s protected species including the Cahow, Bermuda Skink, Spotted Eagle Ray, Green Turtle, Diamondback Terrapin, Yellowwood, Bermuda Killifish, Bermuda Bedstraw, Bermuda Snowberry and Bermuda Cedar. Amendments to the Protected Species Act will see penalties... Read more of this article

Group Campaigns For Bermuda Marine Park

Group Campaigns For Bermuda Marine Park

Global Ocean Legacy, a international project being coordinated by the Pew Environment Group and its partners, hopes to establish a worldwide system of large, highly protected marine reserves where fishing and other extractive activities are protected — including one in Bermuda’s waters. Aside from Bermuda, Pew has called for the establishment... Read more of this article

Turtles Released Back Into The Wild

Turtles Released Back Into The Wild

Seven young turtles which spent much of the year at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo [BAMZ] have now been released into the Sargasso Sea. BAMZ and Bermuda Zoological Society [BZS] staff released the three green turtles and four loggerheads from its conservation vessel “Endurance”  two miles north of North Rock. The BZS newsletter... Read more of this article

Conservation Efforts: Bermuda Turtle Project

Conservation Efforts: Bermuda Turtle Project

Four international representatives are learning how to better protect marine turtles through a long-running Bermuda project that’s leading the way towards stronger conservation efforts throughout the Atlantic region. The visiting participants will join local students and scientists over the next fortnight for the annual course of the Bermuda Turtle... Read more of this article

Turtle Tale Has Happy Ending For “Hooks”

Turtle Tale Has Happy Ending For “Hooks”

Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS) and the Department of Conservation Services, within the Ministry of Public Works, are urging boaters and fishermen to take extra care this summer to avoid harming endangered sea turtles. Bermuda’s marine turtles are a protected species under both the Fisheries Protection Order and the Protected Species Act, says BZS... Read more of this article

Bermuda Green Turtles: Back From Brink

Bermuda Green Turtles: Back From Brink

The goal of the Bermuda Turtle Project — now entering its 43rd year – is, “to promote the conservation of marine turtles through research and education”. Under the direction of Bermuda’s Aquarium, Museum & Zoo, the project team has made notable progress to date and continues to expand its research and education objectives. Fished... Read more of this article

Influx of Baby Sea Turtle Strandings

Influx of Baby Sea Turtle Strandings

During the last few months Bermuda has been experiencing an influx of baby sea turtles stranding on our beaches. The Department of Conservation Services reports that while it is not uncommon for juvenile loggerhead turtles to get caught up in large rafts of Sargassum seaweed, which routinely washes ashore during winter months, very rarely do Green... Read more of this article