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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 …
Continue reading “Sargassum is wreaking havoc on Caribbean ecosystems”
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. …
Continue reading “Effort launched to study rare Virgin Islands boa”
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. …
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 …
Continue reading “EDITORIAL: Cross-agency strategy needed for sargassum”
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 …
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 …
