It’s been four years since Global Response began campaigning to protect the mangroves and marine ecosystem of Bimini Island in the Bahamas – and now we can celebrate a victory! 

The Bahamian government has officially established a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in North Bimini – as we urged them to do in several rounds of Global Response letters.

On March 15, the United Nations General Assembly voted 170–4 to create a new Human Rights Council, effectively dissolving the oft-criticized Commission on Human Rights. Candidates for the Council will need to be elected by an absolute majority of 96 votes in order to secure a position, and once elected members can serve a maximum of two consecutive terms.

A local environment group – Earthcare - is in talks with international partners about a potential boycott of Hilton Hotels to bring more pressure to bear on the Bimini Bay Resort and Casino, long accused of environmental infractions, The Bahama Journal has learnt.

The resort earlier this year secured Hilton’s brand for the property.

The move is the latest strategy that critics are using to halt the environmental degradation of mangroves that is allegedly happening with the resort’s construction.

Despite years of opposition from concerned people from around the globe, despite enormous evidence of the area's ecological importance, and despite a recent outcry from the people of Bimini, in the last week the Bimini Bay Resort and Casino has begun removing the mangroves from North Bimini's North Sound lagoon.

Our campaign to save the mangrove forests of Bimini island in the Bahamas – and avert extinction of sharks and other marine species -- is featured in this major article from the Washington Post. Please help persuade the Bahamian government to stop the mangrove destruction. A golf course is a very bad trade-off for a mangrove forest that sustains one of the most productive and diverse ecosystems in the Caribbean! 

Long-time visitors to the Bahamas have raised concerns that the controversial Bimini Bay Resort will keep environmentally-minded tourists from coming to the island. In several letters to Prime Minister Christie, copies of which were also sent to the Tribune, tourists appealed to the government to halt construction of Phase I of the million resort to preserve the island's mangrove eco-system.