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CCMI RELEASES DETAILS OF UNIQUE QUIET OCEAN STUDY

With Cayman’s borders still closed to regular travel, the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) took this rare and insightful this opportunity to measure the impacts of “Quiet Oceans” on resident fish populations in Grand Cayman.

23 Apr, 2021

Students net 900lbs of trash

A student-led clean-up of Safe Haven saw 65 volunteers, who were mostly children, bag more than 900 pounds of trash last Saturday.

20 Apr, 2021

Little Cayman clean-up nets 3,100 pounds of trash

Having just returned from Little Cayman, the Plastic Free Cayman team have had a successful two-day clean-up where more than 30 volunteers managed to remove more than 3,100 pounds of rubbish from the shores of the smallest of the Cayman Islands.

22 Mar, 2021

2020 Turtle Season: a record year

The Department of Environment (DoE) reports a record turtle season in its efforts to protect endangered sea turtles in the Cayman Islands.

25 Jan, 2021

Huge yield from East-West clean up

A recent coordinated effort of beach cleans-ups has collected more than one thousand pounds of litter, that is more than nine pounds per volunteer, that has been discarded by residents.

20 Jan, 2021

Santa Turtle stops by Cayman Brac

Santa Turtle stopped by the Brac with a welcome addition to the islands already busy season, reports Bonnie Scott of the Brac Turtle patrol.

25 Dec, 2020

Mangrove Rangers to learn of the impacts of Grand Cayman’s mangrove destruction on Climate Change

In the past 40 years, the destruction of Cayman’s mangroves forests for commercial, residential and tourist developments have increased the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere – thereby adding to the problem of climate change.

26 Aug, 2020

BLUE GENES BABIES: NEW FOCUSED APPROACH TO BLUE IGUANA CONSERVATION

The newest clutch of Grand Cayman’s iconic, yet endangered, blue iguanas are hatching at the Blue Iguana Conservation (BIC) facility.

24 Aug, 2020

Female green turtle rescued from Swimming pool

A female green turtle was spotted in the swimming pool of a Seven Mile Beach condominium complex on Saturday, 15th August. The turtle was trying to nest when she lost her way and accidentally fell in the pool.

19 Aug, 2020

Environmental youth summit to empower tomorrow’s leaders

More than 100 local students from both the public and private school sectors are expected to converge at Cayman International School on 25th and 26th April for a first-of-its-kind conference, called the Youth Summit 2020....

03 Mar, 2020
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