The Mangrove Education Project is pleased to announce a grant of Euros $295,000 from the European Union, Expertise France and Resembid to complete its new curriculum of the Cayman Islands Coastal Education Guide (CEG) commenced just prior to Covid and developed and piloted during the past year.
CCMI’s researchers and partners from the University of Haifa, Israel, are using specialized equipment and new methods which they have developed to study how corals can adapt to climate change.
According to the results of a recent survey undertaken by the Ministry of Sustainability & Climate Resiliency, most people in Cayman consider climate change ‘very’ or ‘extremely important’ to them personally, and are ‘very’ or ‘extremely concerned’ that climate change will impact them in their lifet
A poaching attempt was intercepted by a DoE Conservation Officer, Chadd Bush last Saturday night in Grand Cayman.
Last month an invasive green iguana was found by the Foster’s supermarket team hiding in a shipping container arriving from Florida.
The Ministry of Sustainability & Climate Resiliency and Department of Environment are leading emergency response efforts to address the large amount of Sargassum seaweed in the North Sound of Grand Cayman.
Cayman’s bats are a wonderful sight to behold in the early evening, flitting about in the sunset; however, more knowledge is needed as to their location and numbers.
The Department of Environment’s Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) Response Team is holding Cayman’s first ever Coral Fest on Wednesday, 10 August from 5:30 – 7:30pm in the Governor’s Ballroom A at the Westin Hotel.
Agua Hospitality Group is bringing a brand-new eco-friendly spirits concept to Cayman, which they are calling a “huge step forward” for the industry.
It is hoped that Cayman’s projects in the European Union-funded RESEMBID scheme this year will be the start of a continuing series of projects in sustainable development for the jurisdiction.