dabbenena is endemic to the Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic, with nearly its whole population now occurring on Gough Island ( click here for an earlier news item on the bird's serious conservation plight). The bird no longer breeds on the...
mortality to birds at sea (mainly on long-lines) and House Mouse predation on chicks at its sole significant breeding site, Gough Island. The latter problem seems to be getting worse, with the 2008 chick production at an all time low. In the north of...
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...
as albatrosses and petrels, and so clearly international action is required. A female Tristan Albatross incubates its egg on Gough Island, Photograph by John Cooper Albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters are threatened globally at sea and on land. Direct...
and also http://www.panda.org.za/get_publication.php?ID=24&SectionID=2 . UNITED KINGDOM Gough Island Nature Reserve and Inaccessible Island Nature Reserve Gough and Inaccessible Islands, part of the UK's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, are both...
Tristan da Cunha, United Kingdom Cooper, John & Ryan, Peter G. 1994. Management Plan for the Gough Island Wildlife Reserve . Edinburgh, Tristan da Cunha: Government of Tristan da Cunha. 96 pp. ISBN 0 9 03359 38 3. RSPB & Tristan ConservationDepartment...
no disturbance. Ramsar Site No. 1104. ACAP species breeding : Southern Giant Petrel (1) TRISTAN DA CUNHA (UNITED KINGDOM) Gough Island Nature Reserve Ramsar Site No. 1868 Date of Designation: 20 November 2008 229 811 ha; 40º 19’S 009º 56’W. World...
for Inclusion in the World Heritage List. Wellington: Department of Conservation. 76 pp. ISBN 0-478-01910-0. UNITED KINGDOM Gough and Inaccessible Islands Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1995 (Gough Island) and extended to include Inaccessible...
Society for the Protection of Birds. 115 pp. Parkes, J. 2008. A Feasibility Study for the Eradication of House Micefrom Gough Island . RSPB Research Report No. 34. Sandy: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 51 pp. ISBN 978-1-905601-17-2. Torr,...
to South Georgia . [Maidenhead, UK]: WILD Guides . 179 pp. ISBN 1-903657-08-3. www.wildguides.co.uk . Tristan da Cunha & Gough Buxton, Edmund D. 2001. Island Chaplain Tristan da Cunha 1975-1978 . Winchester: George Mann Publications. 96 pp. ISBN...
Force, now active in seven southern hemisphere countries, the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island, marine IBAs (Important Bird Areas), bycatch mitigation fact-sheets (see earlier news item) and the restoration of...
research on ACAP-listed species in the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group. Nearly three weeks will first be spent on Gough Island, where the 28th year of a demographic study of the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos will be...
of the Tristan Departments of Conservation (Trevor Glass) and of Fisheries (James Glass). Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island A prepared document "ACAP Implementation Plan for the Tristan da Cunha islands: review of current work and a...
Gough and Inaccessible are two island nature reserves in the mid South Atlantic that are part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Together they form a single World Heritage Site. Most recently they...
It is now well-known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are facing a double onslaught from longline mortality at sea and from chick predation by introduced House Mice on land. A measure of breeding production for the whole...
Tristan da Cunha. The Great Shearwaters are being tracked by Rob Ronconi of Dalhousie University, Canada who is currently on Gough Island in the Tristan Group with the ACAP Information Officer. During their time at Gough geolocators are being collected...
In 1982 on my first visit to Gough Island, part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, I marked a number of nests of the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos and banded...
at the end of his September liaison visit to Tristan da Cunha and its Conservation and Fisheries Departments to visit Gough Island for a few days over the first week of October. As a guest of the South African National Antarctic Programme he has been...
), it is pleasing to report that the population of at least one ACAP-listed species appears to be remaining stable on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Gough is the most northerly extant breeding locality for Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes...
Helicopters in misty but calm conditions from close to the island's impressive coastal cliffs. The Agulhas had sailed from Gough Island the previous day, on completion of the annual relief of South Africa's weather station on that island. Gough and...
