the 19 June 2020 event and drawing attention to the birds’ conservation crisis. The first such banner has been displayad on Gough Island at the edge of a study colony of Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island; more...
would then be photographed with the field workers in a suitable setting in the general vicinity of breeding albatrosses. Gough Island was the first locality to rise to the challenge, now followed by Bird Island farther south in the Atlantic. British...
Last week the Gough Island Restoration Programme got underway to rid the island of its introduced House Mice Mus musculus that attack and kill chicks of the Critically Endangered and near-endemic Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena (and of other of...
with the field workers in a suitable setting in the vicinity of breeding albatrosses (but not too close as to disturb them). Gough and Bird Islands in the South Atlantic were the first to rise to the challenge, now joined by France’s Amsterdam. Banner...
with domestic fishing vessels. Next year attempts will be made to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on the UK’s Gough Island and the USA’s Midway Atoll. At both localities mice have been attacking and killing albatrosses, as has been...
a logo is required. Seabird researcher Michelle Risi, currently undertaking her second year of field work without a break on Gough Island (and a member of the Agreement’s World Albatross Day Intersessional Group), put ACAP in touch with her old school...
islands which had already made and photographed their home-made World Albatross Day banners in the field; Bird (here) and Gough (here) Islands in the South Atlantic, and France’s Amsterdam Island (here) in the southern Indian. On Possession the island’s...
In 2006/07 and 2007/08 I spent two summers on Gough, a UK island in the South Atlantic, working on alien plant eradications with small teams of volunteers. As well as this necessary work towards the island’s conservation management, we climbed into...
New Zealand Fur Seals [Arctocephalus forsteri] gives them no choice!” Graham and Kalinka spent the 2009/10 year on the UK’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic working on the island’s seabirds. Since then they have continued island work together on...
