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No more conch

Conch Season Ends April 30th The Department of Environment reminds the public that conch season ends on Tuesday, 30 April 2013, whereby conch can no longer be harvested after this date. It is illegal to catch conch between 1 May…

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Every Day is Earth Day for Cayman Dive Operators

Industry leaders team up to raise awareness and help protect the marine environment Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – “We picked up junk, marine debris, flip flops, plastic containers, metal and more,” said Nancy Easterbook of the reef and beach cleanup…

What a mouthful!

What a mouthful! Male fish takes on the task of protecting its eggs… by cramming them into its mouth By Kerry Mcdermot Daily Mail Yellow-headed jawfish spied opening its mouth to aerate its brood Images captured on sea floor off…

Making a difference is Biggie’s deal

From a construction giant to a busy farmer, the soft-spoken Kent Rankin is now a titan in local farming circles. As such, he earned the Minister’s Award for the Most Outstanding Farmer. He also took home trophies as runner-up for…

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Note to Tourists in the Caribbean: Quit Waking Up the Stingrays

From News Gather In the warm, turquoise waters of the Caribbean, Stingray City is a place where thousands of tourists come to commune with graceful stingrays in the Cayman Islands. While the economy in many of the world’s countries is…

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Sea Buckthorn: Ancient Healer and Modern Superfood

From Michelle Schoffro Cook, Care2 An ancient Tibetan healing secret is finally being discovered in the West.  For thousands of years Tibetans used a fruit that grows wild in the Himalayan Mountains as food and medicine to treat many serious…

Dancing animals

5 Aussie Animals Caught Dancing (Gallery) From The Nature Conservancy, from Care2 The Nature Conservancy has collaborated with partners to protect more than six million hectares of land in Australia. We’re very serious about protecting land for people and nature,…

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Caribbean Fisheries Forum to hold 11th annual meeting in Barbados

Heads of national fisheries authorities from the seventeen member states and observers of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will attend the 11th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum from Wednesday, April 24 to Friday, April 26, 2013, at Accra…

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Edinburgh Zoo pandas: Artificial insemination carried out on Tian Tian

BBC Artificial insemination has been carried out on Edinburgh Zoo’s female giant panda Tian Tian. The zoo said panda specialists performed the procedure in the early hours of the morning. Despite the male panda, Yang Guang, having shown “consistently encouraging…