Nestled between vacation villas on Virgin Gorda’s southwestern tip, Spring Bay National Park is a more accessible beach experience for people unable to circumnavigate The Baths less than a kilometre …
June 3, 2025
April 19, 2024
Sargassum is wreaking havoc on Caribbean ecosystems
For more than 20 years, Mexican biologist Dr. María del Carmen García Rivas has led a crusade to protect the coral lining the Yucatan Peninsula in the Caribbean Sea. As …
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March 3, 2023
Effort launched to study rare Virgin Islands boa
Using high-powered flashlights and headlamps to light the way, researchers manoeuvred around mud puddles, bushes and mossy slopes while looking straight up at the trees in Sage Mountain National Park. …
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January 26, 2023
Christmas bird count turns up rare finds
The strikingly bright scarlet ibis is not a common sight in the Virgin Islands, but it has occasionally been spotted around the territory since its 2010 introduction to Necker Island. …
November 1, 2022
EDITORIAL: Cross-agency strategy needed for sargassum
We are impressed by the innovative plan to use drones to track the increasing amount of sargassum washing up on the territory’s shores. However, the growing problem also needs a …
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January 19, 2021
Bird watch well attended
During the annual Christmas Bird Count in Anegada on Jan. 6, Nancy Woodfield Pascoe noticed something new. “We saw nesting mounds [for flamingos], and you can see them from the …
September 17, 2020
Local tours boom during pandemic
Shortly before leading a group of hikers into the bush at Brewers Bay, Mervin Hastings stood in front of sugar mill ruins and debunked the myth that the island of …
