October 2016

BNT Nominated for Go Blue Award

The Bahamas National Trust is a leading contender for this year’s Go Blue Business of the Year Award. The award recognises “outstanding contributions toward promoting and encouraging conservation, restoration, or preservation of marine life and/or marine ecosystems.” Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Go Blue Awards is Florida’s premier ocean conservation event. Judges include renowned ocean conservationists like

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Central and South Eleuthera embrace Marine Protected Areas

The Bahamas National Trust with partners, The Nature Conservancy and BREEF, traveled to Eleuthera in September to revisit talks about implementing Marine Protected Areas. Fishermen and local government were educated about different types of MPAs, and their benefits. MPAs were presented as a tool for mitigating overfishing, declining fish stocks and other threats through enhanced

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Levy Preserve Staff ‘Build Bridges’ with Caribbean and Central American Botanical Institutions

Staff from the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve recently traveled to Panama for the ‘Botanical Bridges’ conference, hosted by the Caribbean and Central American Botanical Garden Network (CCABGN) and Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). Over 64 botanical professionals representing 18 countries from across the region attended the conference to discuss the core issues affecting botanic

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