Higher Ground the Cahow Translocation Project

Statement From Minister of Education:

"I am pleased to lend my support to the work of the LookBermuda Educational Media Foundation. 

Their efforts to visually document Bermuda's unique heritage, history and culture has opened up that world in a way that captures the attention and imagination of our young people and ensures that generations in the future will also understand the importance of sustaining our Island home. 

This film on the Cahow, Bermuda's National Bird, will be an asset to schools as they lead students through the local curriculum. 

I thank the Foundation and Jean Pierre Rouja for this contribution that will help to make teaching and learning in Bermuda even more interesting.

Dame Jennifer Smith, DBE, JP, DHumL, MP, Minister of Education.”

The Royal Gazette Article:

Photo: Chris BurvilleHalf a century of Herculean effort to increase the perilously small numbers of Bermuda's endemic cahow has culminated in this project's most remarkable achievement relocating a colony of the species to the safety of higher ground onto the island of Nonsuch in Castle Harbour.

Tonight a film entitled "Higher Ground" the Cahow Translocation Project will be launched, focusing on this unique management programme designed by Conservation Office Jeremy Madeiros to save Bermuda's national bird, and to safeguard its future.

JP Rouja of LookBermuda, the media company which produced Higher Ground, said: “The film follows the work of the translocation project between 2005 and 2010 as the team move chicks from the crumbling outlying islands and create a new and secure nesting colony on the island of Nonsuch.”

The film, the making of which was supported by Hannover Life Re, Butterfield and Vallis, the Audubon Society and BZS, will be broadcast on LookTV Cable Vision channel 001, online at LookBermuda.com and as an interactive curriculum asset through the LookBermuda Educational Media Foundation for the Public, Private and Home Schools.

It is showing Thursday evening at BUEI, for VIPs, Sponsors and Educators.

Anyone that has not received an invitation and is interested should send an email via the form on LookBermuda.com to be added to the list for future screenings.