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Restoration work to begin at AquariumMonday, August 28, 2017
Work to repair hurricane damage at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo from the past few years is due to begin on September 5 and will last about a month.
BAMZ: Restoration Work On Property Foreshore
Monday, August 28, 2017
The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo [BAMZ] have advised that work will soon begin to restore the property’s foreshore area on Tuesday, September 5 which has been damaged by hurricanes over the last few years.
BZS scholarships handed out
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Akinyi Apopa and Amber Reid are the winners of the Bermuda Zoological Society’s Steinhoff Scholarship for 2017.
Aming stars as Shark Week hits screens
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Choy Aming’s phone started ringing the moment Shark Week hit Canadian television last month.
Rescued turtle returns to the open sea
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
A loggerhead turtle rescued by divers has been returned to the sea after nine months of care.
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After over a year of recuperating at the Bermuda, Aquarium, Museum & Zoo [BAMZ] after losing a flipper, a green sea turtle was released into the wild recently, dropped off about five miles east of Bermuda.
Two weeks ago the BAMZ staff said farewell to “Squirt” — aka “Three Flippers” — after spending over a year helping him to overcome his injuries.
BAMZ Aquarist Steven Davis releasing the turtle. Photo by Nigel Pollard
He has grown to over 4x the size he was when he was brought in to BAMZ in late 2012 after suffering a serious injury which resulted in his losing his front left flipper.
The Green Sea Turtle, as well as a juvenile Loggerhead Turtle, were ferried out on The Endurance boat to a location about five miles east of Bermuda and released into a large patch of Sargasso seaweed.