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Videos/Photos: Start Of ‘Tour De Turtles Race’Tuesday, August 14, 2012
This morning marked the official start of the race with one turtle being released at Clearwater Beach in St David’s.
Turtles to be released and tracked
Friday, August 10, 2012
At least five green sea turtles with attached satellite transmitters are being released from Clearwater Beach next week.
Tour de Turtles Bermuda: ‘Race On The Rock’
Thursday, August 09, 2012
“Tour de Turtles Bermuda: Race On The Rock” will kick off next week and will see green turtles fitted with GPS satellite transmitters to enable researchers to track their every movement as they “race” across the seas.
Volunteers clean up BAMZ
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Some 70 students and volunteers from eleven companies participated in The Centre on Philanthropy’s Community Day.
Saving our 'floating golden rainforest' at a local level
Friday, July 13, 2012
FRIDAY, JUNE 13: The Bermuda Alliance for Sargasso Sea formed last June with the intention of supporting a government led plan to protect the Sargasso Sea and the multitude of species that live within it. The Bermuda Sun sat down with four of the BASS member charities to discuss their mission so far.
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Written by Carla Zuill
17 Aug 2015
Jasun Paynter
What started out as an ordinary summer Sunday morning has turned into the anticipation of an exciting event for one nine-year-old St. George’s boy. Jaysun Paynter, who lives across the street from the Alexandra Batteray beach, tells Today in Bermuda that yesterday started out like every other weekend at home with his parents and siblings.
Until there was a knock on his door.
“It was a man at my house and he asked for a bucket to put turtles in because baby turtles had hatched on the beach. I went and called my daddy and my momma told me to take the iPad outside to take pictures because I had never seen something like this before.”
Jaysun says by the time he got outside there were a number of people standing around watching with interest. The young boy said when he got closer, he saw a number of the baby turtles in the container with seawater his father had provided and several unhatched eggs in the sand.
The East End Primary student adding that he knew from attending camp at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo that it was normal for the mother turtle not to be present as it lays its eggs at night and then leaves the area.
“I was excited because I’d never seen anything like this before. It was really interesting because it was something I’d learned about but never thought that I would see.”
When asked what happened to the hatched turtles, Jaysun says: “ The man took the turtles to the Aquarium and then someone came down here to look at the area.”
And as it turns out, there was a bigger surprise than what Jaysun expected as the beach has now been closed by the Department of Parks until at least this coming Wednesday.
According to a Government spokesperson, staff from BAMZ are currently stationed at the beach to monitor the hatchlings and, along with Parks rangers, will advise anyone who visits the site of the closure.
Maintenance staff from the Department of Parks have been instructed not to rake the beach until receiving clearance from the Department of Conservation Services.
Thus far, 15 hatchlings have been found, 12 of which have been released to sea.