BNT Introduces New Digital Membership Cards
The Bahamas National Trust (BNT) is proud to have some of the best supporters on our side – our invaluable members. BNT Members are our conservation family. Today, we’re introducing our new digital membership cards to our family. Your BNT Membership can now travel with you outside of your wallet and at your fingertips! As […]
10 Years As a World-Class Botanic Garden
On March 24, 2021 The Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve observed ten years as a world-class botanic garden. To commemorate the anniversary an Open House and cocktail reception were held at the Preserve where visitors, staff and supporters could safely gather to celebrate. In a brief video presentation the visionary team of founder...
BNT Rejects Oil Drilling and Chooses Our Oceans
A new species of insect has been discovered at the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve. The insect is a katydid and belongs to the same group as grasshoppers and crickets in the order Orthoptera. Specimens of this new species were first collected in 2013 by Dr. Paul A. De Luca, an assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University of...
Shelby White Honoured as BNT Conservation Legend
11/10/2020 11:12:27 AM We congratulate our founder Shelby White in being named a BNT Conservation Legend! The Conservation Legend Award recognizes outstanding leaders, visionaries, and pioneers in Bahamian conservation. Their actions have contributed to the creation of The Bahamas national park system, the creation of The Bahamas National Trust...
LLNPP Joins World Flora Online
10/7/2020 9:29:00 AM The Levy Preserve/Bahamas National Trust became the 42nd institutional partner of the World Flora Online (WFO), an open-access web-based compendium of the world’s 400,000 species of vascular plants and mosses. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the Preserve’s plant data is now integrated within the larger WFO...
Report from the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation on Members’ Progress
9/23/2020 10:03:00 AM Global Strategy for Plant Conservation succeeds in aligning actions to protect plant diversity around the world • Success realised in aligning actions by world’s botanist and plant protection community through shared set of principles and objectives.• While unlikely that all targets will be achieved by 2020, clear that...
Preserve Moves Up the Accreditation Ranks for Botanic Gardens
6/24/2020 5:41:47 PM After attaining the Accredited Botanic Garden award just over a year ago, the Levy Preserve adds another feather to its cap with the latest distinction issued by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) – that of Accredited Conservation Practitioner. This second tier of accreditation evaluates a...
BNT Assesses Extent of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease
4/22/2020 10:43:42 AM In November 2019, when it was first documented in The Bahamas, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) – a newly emergent marine epidemic with no cure- has rapidly spread in five months over 20 percent of coral reefs in Grand Bahama’s National Parks. The national parks that are affected include Peterson Cay […]
Naples Botanical Garden Hosts Conservation Networking Session
1/2/2020 12:02:00 PM Dr. Ethan Freid attended a meeting of regional garden and conservation leaders from the Caribbean and Central America Garden Network held at Naples Botanical Garden (NBG). The focus of the sessions was to work to further develop the regional strategy for plant conservation, identify regional needs, and prioritize future...
New Bahamas Stamp Series Featuring Native Plants
10/1/2019 3:34:08 AM The National Post Office released a new stamp series that highlights Bahamian endemic plant species. The twenty stamps range from five-cent to ten-dollar denominations and include single-island endemics Symphyotrichum lucayanum (known only from Grand Bahama) and Euphorbia longinsulicola (found only on...