Park Stories

Mar

Volunteerism: The Key to Pollution-In-Parks | Bahamas National Trust

Volunteerism: The Key to Pollution-In-Parks By Steffon Evans Outreach Officer for Bahamas National Trust Every year, over 500 members of the community extend the arms of the BNT’s reach through meaningful service – sharing with this great organization the stance that our Bahamian environment needs to be protected. While these capacities go from leading nature tours to filing important paperwork, without a doubt every single volunteering moment is a precious commodity to our BNT family. On January 18-19, participants of the Governor General’s Youth Award (GGYA) took on the awesome task of volunteering with us to help remove...

Feb

Christmas Bird Count – Its Not Just About Counting Birds

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Lynn Gape

Birds, Blog

Christmas Bird Count Bahamas – It’s Not Just About Counting Birds Story by Lynn Gape, Deputy Executive Director of the Bahamas National Trust For the past 24 years The Bahamas has participated in the “Christmas Bird Count” (CBC), the first formal citizen science project that began 116 years ago in the United States and now includes all the Canadian Provinces, the Caribbean, Bahamas, South America as well as several Pacific Islands. Sixty – five persons participated in the The Bahamas’ CBCs which were held on Abaco, Andros, Grand Bahama and New Providence . These counts collect important data...

Jan

An Abaco Mystery: The Missing Bahama Oriole

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Monalisa Sweeting

Birds, Blog

By Scott Johnson, Science Officer, Bahamas National Trust In the 1990’s, Abaco, the second largest island in The Bahamas and the island with the most endemic birds lost one of its five endemic bird species: the Bahama Oriole. To date, we are not sure what caused its extinction. In this short article, I offer a few thoughts that may have led to the demise of the Bahama Oriole on Abaco focusing on hurricanes, human disturbance and the house cat. Hurricanes are radically powerful storms that have helped to mould the Bahama archipelago. The strong winds, and heavy...

Jan

The Abaco Parrot | What you might not know…

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Monalisa Sweeting

Birds, Blog, Parks

The Abaco Parrot: Subterranean Amazons in The Bahamas by Giselle Dean, Science Officer for the Bahamas National Trust One of my most cherished memories is a trip that I took as a child to Abaco. During that trip, I learned how to fish, got to experience the pine forests, and visited some iconic Bahamian locations such as Marsh Harbour and the Hope Town Lighthouse. Being the animal lover that I am, my favourite parts were fishing, but also getting my first look at a very special bird, the Abaco Parrot. It was not until much, much later that I...

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Dec

Mangrove Restoration Project Bonefish Pond National Park

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Monalisa Sweeting

Blog, BNT Events, Projects

On Saturday 16th December the Bahamas National Trust’s Bonefish Pond National Park received an early Christmas gift! Rotary of East Nassau and Rotary International partnered with us on a climate resiliency initiative, a cause that is of a priority to Rotary International President Elect Barry Rassin (who by the way is the first every Bahamian and, for that matter, Caribbean national to be appointed to this esteemed role). To kick off Mr. Rassin’s Presidency he and his wife Esther spent the afternoon with BNT staff and fellow Rotarians planting mangrove propogules and seedlings at Bonefish Pond. The plants were...

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