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Cayman: Amnesty period for ‘pet’ parrots starts Sept. 1st
29 August, 2019 Residents who are currently keeping Cayman parrots as pets will be given six months, from 1 September 2019 to 29 February 2020, to register those birds with the Department of Environment (DoE). After February 2020, any unregistered…
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Rare Caribbean gecko given highest level of protection under CITES
By Rebecca Drury From Fauna-Flora The Union Island gecko, found only in St Vincent & the Grenadines, is to be listed under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Fauna & Flora International…
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Recycle E-waste: Save the planet, save gorillas
Introduction You might have heard a little about recycling in the past, but did you know that you might be saving the life of a Gorilla by choosing to recycle certain items? Yes! There has been a rapid decline in…
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Mexican Caribbean celebrates Whale Shark Day with new tour regulations to protect species
QUINTANA ROO, Mexico, Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Ahead of Whale Shark Day on August 30, tour providers of the Mexican Caribbean have welcomed new government-mandated regulations to protect the largest fish in the world. Introduced by Mexico’s National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP),…
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Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave
Florida Museum of Natural History From EurekAlert! GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton’s caracara from a flooded sinkhole on Great…
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The Publisher speaks: Scrabbling
I wrote this poem twenty plus years ago when chickens were having a bad time scrabbling for food because of the new development in George Town. Yes, this was before Camana Bay changed things. Since then, the chickens moved out,…
Child-sized parrots once roamed New Zealand
By Mike Wehner From BGR Parrots are popular pets today, and you don’t have to look far on YouTube to find charming videos of tropical birds doing adorable things. They’re fun animals, and their small size makes them appealing to…
UK: Farmer produces ethical king prawns in a Lincolnshire field
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan From The Guardian UK Most warm water prawns sold in UK are imported from Asia and are tainted with allegations of slavery and environmental destruction At a farm in Lincolnshire two aquaculturists are busy feeding thousands…
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Jeremy Jackson: Paleontology and Paleobiology Conservation Biolog
From Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute “There are no important questions today for understanding how the Earth works – ecologically, evolutionary, geochemically, oceanographically, meteorologically – that can be answered by a single person, or by a single discipline. All of the…
