The Department of Environment is reminding the public that it is illegal to kill, harm or possess a shark or any part of a shark in the Cayman Islands.
Cayman Turtle Conservation and Education Centre (CTCEC) is pleased to announce its first annual Sea Turtle Festival, to be held June 16-20, 2021.
The Department of Environment: (DoE) has distanced itself from a decision allowing the filling in of part of the ironshore on North West Point for a luxury property development project.
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.
A student-led clean-up of Safe Haven saw 65 volunteers, who were mostly children, bag more than 900 pounds of trash last Saturday.
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.
The Department of Environment (DoE) reports a record turtle season in its efforts to protect endangered sea turtles in the Cayman Islands.
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.
Santa Turtle stopped by the Brac with a welcome addition to the islands already busy season, reports Bonnie Scott of the Brac Turtle patrol.
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.