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BAMSI plants a tree at Palmdale Primary
BAMSI plants a tree at Palmdale Primary
PALMDALE PRIMARY SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS joined the food security dream team on Wednesday to plant avocado and mango trees as part of The Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute’s (BAMSI) One-2-One Tree Planting project launched by earlier this year.
'Plant a Tree. Leave a Legacy!' The 'Road to 50' Independence Secretariat celebrates International Arbour Day by planting trees around the island
As the 50th Anniversary of Bahamas Independence approaches its landmark on July 10, 2023 the Independence Secretariat has held a plethora of activity for its 'Road to 50' celebration.
R.M. Bailey School plants Yellow Elder for Earth Day 2023
The Hon. Vaughn Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, underscored to R.M. Bailey Senior High School students the importance of making informed decisions that benefit the environment.
Minister Sweeting Touts Bahamas’ Climate Smart Efforts At Caribbean Tree Planting Week
Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family IslandAffairs Hon. Clay Sweeting said that The Bahamas plans to place “relentless pressure”on larger countries with high carbon emissions during COP-27 to seek cleaner energy alternatives.
Grand Bahama students help plant 2,200 Mangroves, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, BNT, Mang Gear & Volunteers Partner in Habitat Replacement after Dorian
With the sun on their backs and the future of their island at heart, dozens of students from Bishop Michael Eldon High School planted 2,200 mangroves in East Grand Bahama recently, helping to restore what Hurricane Dorian destroyed two years earlier.
Students clambered over naked wetlands where red mangroves had flourished before being wiped out by the Category 5 hurricane that leveled entire s...
Mangrove restoration project hits milestone – 14,000 planted, 86,000 to go
Just over two years after Hurricane Dorian tore through Abaco and Grand Bahama, changing the landscape of those islands in the northern Bahamas forever, a group dedicated to restoring one of nature's most critical components said this week it had reached a milestone.
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) and partners Bahamas National Trust, Friends of the Environment and MANG have now planted 14,000 ma...
Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve Celebrates 10 Years on Eleuthera
The Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve (LLNPP), a historic national park managed by the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) on the island of Eleuthera, celebrates its ten-year anniversary this March 24.
Founded by Shelby White in honor of her late husband Leon Levy, the LLNPP is a living part of Bahamian history. It is the fulfillment of the vision of Shelby and Leon, who both loved the natural environm...
Gibson laments financial burden on govt created by reverse osmosis plants
Member of Parliament for Long Island and Executive Chairman of the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) Adrian Gibson wants to release the government from the multi-year, multimillion-dollar burden of having foreign-run reverse osmosis (RO) plants, he said in his 2019/2020 budget contribution last week...
WSC Officials Tour Construction of New Providence Wasterwater Treatment Plants and Pumping Stations
WSC Officials Tour Construction of New Providence Wasterwater Treatment Plants and Pumping Stations
Water and Sewerage (WSC) officials led media representatives on a tour of construction sites of wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations in New Providence, Tuesday, March 5...
New osmosis plant for hurricane-hit Ragged Island
New osmosis plant for hurricane-hit Ragged Island
OFFICIALS expect to have a recently procured solarised reversed osmosis plant online in Ragged Island by next week, Water and Sewerage Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson has said. Addressing long-standing water issues on the island, Mr Gibson said the...