Gough and Inaccessible Islands in the South Atlantic form part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Together the two island nature reserves (including their 12-nautical mile territorial...
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...
no less than eight countries) estimates the two species diverged about 0.2 million years ago (mya). The giant petrels of Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the northernmost breeding site for the genus, are confirmed to be Southerns. Spectacled and...
joins a number of others ( click here ) that deal with aspects of the conservation of seabirds at the Tristan da Cunha and Gough group of islands, including the eradication of introduced rodents. The report, authored by Erica Sommer, Richard Cuthbert...
ACAP-listed species. Islands to be covered will include Australia's Macquarie Island, the United Kingdom's Tristan and Gough Islands, New Zealand's Campbell Island, the French sub-Antarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean, and the Falkland...
in the Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic ( click here and here for previous news items on the expedition) . Along with Gough Island, the Inaccessible Island Nature Reserve is a World Heritage Site , as well as being a Ramsar Wetland of...
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 where introduced House Mice are attacking large seabirds ( click here ). The problem now seems to...
the Subantarctic Front and yet fall into SCAR's area of interest include Ile Amsterdam, Ile St. Paul, Macquarie Island and Gough Island." Thus SCAR covers much of the breeding and at-sea ranges of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. John Cooper, ACAP...
of vagrant species. A recent publication reports an adult Salvin's Albatross Thalassarche salvini ashore in October 2008 on Gough Island in the South Atlantic - photographed immediately adjacent to an incubating Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross T....
Graham Parker and Kalinka Rexer-Huber, originally from New Zealand, are spending a year on Gough Island in the South Atlantic conducting research towards the eventual eradication of the introduced House Mouse - which notoriously attacks Tristan...
da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research activities are concentrated on Marion Island, at the latter on Gough and Inaccessible Islands, in conjunction with partners at the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) and...
Albatross. Photograph by Richard Phillips Salvin's Albatross next to an incubating Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island. Photograph by Paul Visser Incubating "shy-type" albatross Thalassarche cauta/steadi on Prince Edward Island with...
The full text of the petition called attention to the serious plight of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island in the South Atlantic (part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) whose chicks are...
the southern Indian Ocean (Amsterdam, Iles Crozet, Kerguelen, Prince Edward Islands and St Paul) and in the South Atlantic (Gough, Inaccessible and Sea Lion Islands). Further, Australia is currently working towards registering Heard & McDonald and...
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 scholarship, which was established by the RNBWS from a legacy made to it by Captain Davis...
Island Council at a meeting held at the end of last year. Anton was able to visit the main island of Tristan (and outlying Gough Island) last year when he discussed a draft text with the island community ( click here and here for earlier news stories on...
linked to fishing activity. References: Richardson , M.E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha group and Gough Island, 1972-1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201. Ryan, P.G., Glass, N. & Ronconi, R.A. 2011. The plants and birds of Stoltenhoff...
K., Parker, G. & Ryan, P. The impact of invasive house mice and plans for their eradication at the UK Overseas Territory of Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha. [Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena ]. Eijzenga, Heather. Vegetation change following rabbit...
of Antarctic Research 14: 34-35. Imber, M.J. 1983. The lesser petrels of Antipodes Islands with notes from Prince Edward and Gough Islands. Notornis 30: 283-298. Ryan, P.G., Cooper, J., Dyer, B.M., Underhill, L.G., Crawford, R,J.M. & Bester, M.N. 2003....
MSc Thesis, University of Cape Town. Wanless, Ross M. 2007. The impacts of the introduced House Mouse on the seabirds of Gough Island. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. 198 pp. Wheeler, Mariëtte 2009. The effects of human disturbance on the seabirds...
