136 dogs rescued from ‘Uninhabitable’ multimillion dollar OC mansion
By Laura Goldman From Care2 From the outside, the multimillion dollar mansion in Orange, Calif., looked no different than the others in the exclusive gated community. But outside the front door, the stench of feces and urine permeated the air….
New nets make shrimp trawling more sustainable in Latin America and Caribbean
By Michelle Carrere Translated by Sarah Engel From Mongabay When fishers accidentally catch non-target species, they either sell the so-called bycatch or throw it back into the ocean, almost always dead. Newly invented nets have allowed shrimp trawlers to reduce…
Nest implementation at Cayman Islands Government House
From Cayman Turtle Center HE Governor Martyn Roper (bottom left) carefully hands one of the turtle eggs to Dr Walter Mustin (bottom right), Cayman Turtle Centre’s Chief Research and Conservation Officer, while his wife Elizabeth (top left) looks on. Tim…
Cayman Islands’ first ever Billfish Rundown awards over $260,000 in cash prizes
he Cayman Islands’ first-ever Cayman Billfish Rundown awarded more than US$260,000 in cash prizes to 14 teams hailing from both local and international shores. Held May 14-17 on Grand Cayman, 41 teams registered in the sportfishing tournament, presented by Hurley’s…
US dad ‘punched shark five times’ to save daughter
From BBC A North Carolina teenager is recovering in hospital after a shark attack left her with severe injuries from bites to her legs and hands, officials say. According to Paige Winter’s family, her father had to punch the shark…
Intern killed by North Carolina Zoo lion inspires bill banning exotic animals
By Laura Goldman from Care2 As she cleaned an enclosure during the tenth day of her internship at Conservators Center in Burlington, N.C., late last year, Alexandra Black was attacked and killed by a lion, Matthei, when he escaped from a…
Turtles of the Caribbean
Managing the traditional turtle fishery of the Turks and Caicos Islands From Marine Conservation Society The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is a UK Overseas Territory (UKOT) lying in the northern Caribbean, where hunting sea turtles has been a tradition…
Cyprus begins lionfish cull to tackle threat to Mediterranean ecosystem
By Helena Smith from the Guardian UK Voracious fish are bleeding into ocean ‘like a cut artery’, says top marine biologist Cyprus has held its first organised cull of lionfish after numbers of the invasive species have proliferated in recent years,…
Cayman Islands DoE issues advisory on jellyfish stings
28 May, 2019 The Department of Environment (DoE) received reports from a number of water sports operators of several individuals being stung by jellyfish in the North Sound on Monday, 27th May, at Stingray Sandbar and near the North Sound’s…
Wild horses are once again at risk of barbaric sterilization surgeries
By Alicia Graef From Care2 After the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced last year that it would abandon a barbaric surgical sterilization experiment on captive wild mares, it seemed they would be safe, but they’re once again at risk. Unfortunately, the…