NEWS AND HOT TOPICS

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Baby Diamondback TerrapinTough new laws to protect Bermuda's wildlife. 

Check out the article in the Bermuda Sun...

For the full list of what is protected and links to all relevant legistlation please go to our Protected Species Amended page. 

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NEW PAGE! Learn how to build a TERRARIUM. Just in time for this years Agricultural Exhibition.   

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The Department of Parks has released the catalogue for the 2012 Agricultural Exhibition. Choose your entry and get growing!

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Bermuda shipwreck featured in Archaeology Magazine

Archaeology Magazine's November/December 2011 issue (Vol. 64 #6) featured an article Letters from Bermuda: Secrets of a Civil War Shipwreckby Dr. James Delgado. The article describes the sinking of the American Civil War blockade runner Mary Celestia on a Bermuda reef and the 2011 excavation of the wreck by scientists from NOAA and the Bermuda Government.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Cahow Breeding Season Report 2010-2011

• Gecko Sighting Form

• Agricultural Embargoes

• Whale Watching Guidelines

• Poison Ivy ID sheet

• The Cahow Recovery Program Breeding Season Report for 2010

• The Riddle of the Crest [video]

• Skink Recovery Plan

• Cup Match Turtle Alert

• Fern Species Recovery Plan

• Coral Reef Economic Valuation Brief

• Species Recovery Plan for the Bermuda Land Snail (Poecilozonites circumfirmatus)

• Total Economic Value of Bermuda's Coral Reefs: Full Report

SPECIES SPOTLIGHT

Our Species Spotlight blog provides in-depth descriptions of species of interest.

Have you visited Spittal Pond lately? Did you see a large white bird?

Read more about the Great Egret in our January Species Spotlight.