Topic: stingrays
2025 Year in Review: The seas around us
Looking back at the marine environment around the Cayman Islands in 2025, including a landmark survey of the deep sea bed.
Cayman stingray features in New Scientist’s top photos for 2023
A photo of one of Cayman’s famous southern stingrays has featured in New Scientist magazine’s seven best animal photos of the year.
Census shows stingrays back in force at Sandbar
The stingray population at the Sandbar has bounced back, rebounding to almost pre-2020 figures, as twice-yearly censuses have been finding more than 100 of the animals at the site.
CITA boss: Stingray mishandling ‘unacceptable’
A social media video showing a stingray being taken out of the water and placed on top of a couple has prompted an investigation by the Department of Environment.
Gov’t funds water-sports operators to feed stingrays
Government is paying water-sports operators $80,000 to feed stingrays at the Stingray City Sandbar for the next four months.
Stingray guardians to help ‘save’ sandbar
A water-sports operator is trying to help save his business and preserve the North Sound sandbar by recruiting young ‘stingray guardians’ as part of an after-school snorkel club.
Stingray sandbar population has halved amid COVID impact
The number of stingrays at the North Sound sandbar has halved as a result of a decline in visitors since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, according to the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation.
Stingray City, Sandbar unlocked for tour operators
Commercial vessels with wildlife interaction zone (WIZ) licences for Stingray City and the Sandbar can now access the popular sites under specified conditions, according to new regulations released Friday evening.
DoE preps for Sandbar reopening
Restrictions at Stingray City and the Sandbar are set to be lifted on 19 July and the Department of Environment is preparing for the return of visitors to the North Sound sites.
Sharks at the sandbar? Be encouraged, not afraid, say researchers
A rare sighting of black tip reef sharks in the crystal clear water of Stingray Sandbar should be cause for celebration, not alarm, according to the photographer who captured the moment.
Daily stingray feedings draw on DoE resources, personnel
From 19 July, restrictions on the Sandbar and Stingray City will come to an end and for deputy director of the Department of Environment, Tim Austin, that day cannot come fast enough.
Stingrays injured by boats
The Department of Environment and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation raise concern after two stingrays were injured in quick succession by boats at the sandbar.
Census shows stingray numbers rising
A total of 100 stingrays was recorded at the North Sound sandbar at the latest population count last week. At the last count in July 2016, there were 107 rays at the site.
Stingrays make Sandbar home base
A resident population of stingrays has made the North Sound Sandbar their long-term home, population data from the latest stingray census indicates.
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