Latest issue of Sea Change published on the web Sea Change is the Newsletter of the Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International. The GSP is co-ordinated on behalf of the BirdLife International Partnership by the United Kingdom ’s Royal Society...
Planning to get rid of the rodents of Tristan and Gough The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the United Kingdom Partner of BirdLife International, has recently made available a review* of the impacts of rodents on islands in the Tristan da...
Worldwide, introduced rodents have played havoc in seabird colonies, including of procellariiforms. The Tristan da Cunha group, a United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic , has not escaped this rodent plague. The Tristan Albatross...
{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena, an ACAP-listed species endemic to the Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic, has been recategorized as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International on behalf of the World Conservation Union...
{mosimage} On Thursday 4 September 2008, an expedition will sail from Cape Town, South Africa for Gough Island in the South Atlantic to continue a demographic study of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . The Tristan Albatross, an ACAP-listed...
{mosimage} National Geographic Deutschland, Deutsche Lufthansa, the Zoological Research Museum Koenig and the Convention on Migratory Species ( CMS ) have announced the 2008 winner of the UNEP/CMS Thesis Award on Migratory Species Conservation . The...
{mosimage} Gonydale on Gough Island in the South Atlantic is the site of a long-term demographic study being conducted on the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena by the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Royal Society...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island in the South Atlantic has had in recent years a consistently low breeding success, due to introduced House Mice Mus musculus regularly killing its chicks during the winter...
{mosimage} It is now well known that the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic kill large numbers of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year, directly leading to the species’ recent re-designation as...
{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was recently upgraded to Critically Endangered, due to the double blow of fishing mortality to birds at sea (mainly on long-lines) and House Mouse predation on chicks at its sole significant breeding...
It is now well known that the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic's Tristan da Cunha Group, is driving the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena towards extinction - by active...
Attaining an improved conservation status for those species of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters listed within the Agreement is its main aim and its reason for existence. A common way that such efforts are directed is by way of the production of a...
A multi-national expedition departs today on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , from Cape Town to continue conservation research on ACAP-listed species in the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group. Nearly three weeks will...
With attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus killing a large proportion of Tristan Albatross chicks Diomedea dabbenena (and Atlantic Petrel chicks Pterodroma incerta ), it is pleasing to report that the population of at least one ACAP-listed...
On 15 October, the third workshop in a series of four was held to develop a management plan for the Gough and Inaccessible Islands World Heritage Site. The Site is part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da...
A paper published on-line in 2009 and in the February 2010 issue of the journal Antarctic Science by researchers at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa has shown that it is not only Gough Island in the South Atlantic...
South African research on ACAP-listed species is primarily carried out at two island groups, South Africa's Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research...
Petitioning the United Kingdom Government via its Prime Minister is a long tradition, now brought up-to-date by the use of an on-line facility. In 2009 Phil Bateman MBE e-petitioned No. 10: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make the...
The Royal Naval Bird Watching Society ( RNBWS ) has awarded a Captain Simpson Scholarship to establish a long-term demographic study of the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus (an ACAP-listed species) on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. The...
Tristan da Cunha (part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) in the South Atlantic has adopted an implementation plan for the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP). The plan has...
