Camp Safari 2015: Winging It With Our Bahama Birds!
7/17/2015 11:09:00 AM Camp Safari at the Levy Preserve this year was held from July 13-17 and was an exciting adventure into the world of Bahamian Birds. The week’s activities were adapted from Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s BirdSleuth curriculum and campers ‘soared’ under the theme ‘Winging It with Our Bahama Birds.’ Seven teenage...
COB Students Arrive for 2nd Annual Terrestrial Natural History of The Bahamas Internship
5/29/2015 2:38:00 PM With summer underway, three College of the Bahamas biochemistry majors have come to Eleuthera for the annual Terrestrial Natural History of the Bahamas internship. Shannan Yates, Fran Rahming, and Tamarind Johnson flew over from Nassau on May 18th. The internship will run for seven weeks and the students will spend...
U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Lisa Johnson Visits The Preserve
4/12/2015 5:59:00 PM On April 12-14, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Lisa Johnson made an official trip to Eleuthera to meet with strategic partners and stakeholders on the island. During her stay, Chargé Johnson, along with accompanying U.S. Embassy representatives, was treated to a tour of The Levy Preserve by Manager, Falon Cartwright and Botanist,...
The Preserve Hosts Jazz Festival in Support of Haynes Library
3/28/2015 3:17:00 PM On March 28th, 2015, the Levy Preserve hosted ‘Eleuthera All That Jazz’ for the third consecutive year. The five day festival, which features Bahamian and international artists, is organized in support of the local Governor’s Harbour library, the Haynes Library. The festival has solidified Eleuthera’s reputation as...
The Preserve Celebrates Forestry Awareness Week with Local Primary Schools
3/21/2015 1:41:00 PM The ‘International Day of Forests’, more commonly referred to as World Forestry Day is observed annually on March 21st. This year, The Bahamas Ministry of the Environment and Housing’s Forestry Unit coordinated a week of activities to celebrate forests throughout the archipelago. During this “Forestry Awareness Week”, The...
Researchers Study Bird Blood Values at The Preserve
3/20/2015 8:34:00 PM Dr. Sheila Scoville and Peter Doherty are partners in life and in science. Dr. Scoville is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Anatomy at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Mr. Doherty is a Yale trained environmental lawyer who has spent years as a field biologist as a bird bander and trainer. Together […]
Summer Interns Trained in Bahamian Terrestrial Natural History
9/15/2014 4:00:53 PM Summer 2014 brought with it the first Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve Terrestrial Natural History Internship. The Preserve hosted two College of the Bahamas students, Shanel Adderley and Justin Storr, for six weeks of intensive field biology training. They focused on learning the Botany, Entomology, Ornithology,...
Arthropod survey continues to document new specimens for The Levy Preserve
8/11/2014 10:45:53 AM Beginning in February, 2012, Dr. Paul A. De Luca began a study to survey the arthropod fauna present at The Levy Preserve. By the end of the summer in 2012, a total of 201 species of insects, spiders, crabs, and other arthropods had been collected. Dr. De Luca returned to The Levy […]
Wonderful, Waterful, Wetlands! At The Levy Preserve
8/6/2014 11:44:12 AM During the week of July 21st – 25th, 2014, the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, in collaboration with the Haynes Library, hosted an educational, fun-filled summer camp for the children of Governor’s Harbour. This year’s theme was “Wonderful, Waterful, Wetlands!” Campers experienced the wonders of Bahamian wetlands, both on...
Lepidoptera Scientists visit The Levy Preserve
8/6/2014 8:00:00 AM Over the weekend of June 27th, 2014, the Levy Preserve hosted Dr. Jacqueline Miller and Dr. Debbie Lott of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Dr. Goss from Palm Beach Atlantic University and Mr. Mark Simon on a rapid survey of Eleutheran Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). A National Geographic Society grant supports...