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Ocean Day Overview: Overfishing, Conservation, and Sustainability
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Ocean Day Overview: Overfishing, Conservation, and Sustainability

https://yourbassguy.com/best/fishing-drone/A global look at the most critical issue facing our oceans today. As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government intervention is the solution. Indeed, it might be one of the main drivers of overfishing and other conservation and sustainability issues stemming from commercial fishing. Much like drone fishing, there are serious ethical issues of interest to the average angler. There’s another commonality that…

June 8, 2021

Written by: Coty Perry

How Teddy Tucker Led a Team of National Geographic Photographers through the Sargasso Sea
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How Teddy Tucker Led a Team of National Geographic Photographers through the Sargasso Sea

A media embargo has finally lifted from a group of highly skilled Bermudian and overseas naturalists who set out to document the golden rain forest of the Sargasso Sea. In a series of summer expeditions between 2011 and 2014, National…

May 5, 2021

Photography by: David Doubilet

Written by: Fae Sapsford

The Land Crab Story: An Interview with Dr. David Wingate
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The Land Crab Story: An Interview with Dr. David Wingate

Every year at the beginning of July, when Bermuda’s waters became warmer in the summer sun, a crimson migration erstwhile passed over our roads and beaches. Side-ways bumbling land crabs in their thousands used to make for the water, in…

April 27, 2021

Written by: Fae Sapsford

Wildlife 101: Diamondback Terrapins with Dr. Mark Outerbridge
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Wildlife 101: Diamondback Terrapins with Dr. Mark Outerbridge

How much do you know about the Diamondback Terrapin? We spoke with expert Dr. Mark Outerbridge of the Department of Conservation Services to find out what it is that makes the Diamondback Terrapin so special and what we can do…

April 13, 2021

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Environmental Emergency: TRASH

Our lifestyles generally, the pollution we generate and the amount of waste we create through packaging or discarding items we no longer want, especially when they are not discarded properly, are damaging our island’s ecology and contributing to climate change.…

March 30, 2021

Written by: Annabel Cooper

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Bermuda Beasts: The Centipede

Feared worse than any other creature, big or small in Bermuda is the dreaded centipede. Large and venomous, just the thought of a centipede is enough to unnerve even the strongest of humans. Once thought to only inhabit St. David’s,…

February 15, 2021