'Lifeboat' project aims to save our endemics
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'Lifeboat' project aims to save our endemics

Saint George : Bermuda | Apr 25, 2012 at 7:21 AM PDT
Source: Bermuda Sun
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This September, six pairs of Bermuda skinks will be collected from one of their last strongholds in Castle Harbour. The critically endangered rock lizards will be carefully loaded onto a plane and flown to Chester Zoo in the UK. Their mission is simple: to secure the future of Bermuda's only indigenous... FULL ARTICLE AT Bermuda Sun
 
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