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Upcoming events

Promoting a sustainable Eleuthera for The Bahamas and beyond - February 19 – 21, 2010. The second conference in a series on small island sustainability. Join the policymakers, business leaders, and resort developers who are looking to explore the potential that Eleuthera holds and the solutions that Cape Eleuthera has implemented. Click here for details and to register.

Special guest: Governor Christine Todd Whitman, pictured (right) with Island School alumnus Carter Brown (S09). Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania Trust Company, Radnor, PA

See what other small islands are doing to promote sustainability

CEI Shark Week! Click here for more details and to apply!

CEI Launches new gap year program - Click here for more details.

Cape Eleuthera Institute featured on ESPN2 program “Pirates of the Flats”
New ESPN program

“Pirates of the Flats,” a new ESPN2 program, visited Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) last spring to learn
about the research on bonefish and where they spawn. The show, hosted by Tom Brokaw, Michael
Keaton, and Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia explores various topics on bonefish in The Bahamas during its
eight episodes. Cape Eleuthera Institute is featured in Episode 3 (“A Bigger Fish”) and Episode 4
(“School of Fish”), scheduled to air January 10th and January 17th at at 9am EST.
“We were pleased to host ‘Pirates of the Flats’ at Cape Eleuthera Institute in Spring 2009,” said Karla
Cosgriff, managing director of CEI. “The program provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the
importance of bonefish conservation in The Bahamas and to showcase the research being done here at
CEI.”
“Pirates of the Flats” highlights the importance of bonefish to the tourism industry in the region and why
conservation techniques are important to catch and release angling. Scientists on the show also
demonstrate how they are tracking bonefish by implanting transmitters to understand behavior and unlock
the mystery of bonefish spawning.

Recent observations

Sharks in The Bahamas - Click here to see a compilation of videos from our baited underwater video surveys.

Lionfish in The Bahamas - Many of our staff are reporting sightings of lionfish at many of our dive and snorkeling sites spanning the entire island of Eleuthera. Lionfish are an exotic species common to the tropical Pacific and have inadvertently been introduced to the waters of The Bahamas. Their presence could have profound cascading effects through the local marine ecosystems. Help monitor Lionfish by reporting sightings here.

Return of Long-Spined Sea Urchins and Elkhorn Coral – The abundance of long-spined sea urchins has increased dramatically over the past six months at several of our nearshore sites. Interestingly, we are also seeing small colonies of Elkhorn coral in some of these same areas. Urchins are known grazers of algae that can out-complete corals for space, and the increase in the number of urchins could be helping structurally important Elkhorn corals to also repopulate.