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Conservationists seek protection for land crabs

Conservationists seek protection for land crabs

| 03/06/2019 | 26 Comments

(CNS): A group of concerned conservationists who are worried about the threat to Cayman’s land crabs have been working with the Department of Environment to get these culturally significant creatures on the protected species lists under the National Conservation Law. A request is now being made to Cabinet to add the black land crab and […]

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Land crabs threatened by traffic and development

Land crabs threatened by traffic and development

| 06/08/2018 | 13 Comments

(CNS): A new scoping study by the Department of Environment Terrestrial Research Unit found that almost 3,000 black land crabs were killed on the Queen’s Highway in East End during the two month peak migration season last summer. Writing in the DoE magazine, Flicker, graduate research student Kinsey Tedford, said there is much local anecdotal […]

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