Kingdom announced that the cool temperate Gough and Inaccessible Island Nature Reserves in the UK's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic will be added to the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance (see earlier news...
Endangered) Chatham Islands (New Zealand), Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita (Critically Endangered) Gough Island (Tristan da Cunha, UK), Tristan Albatross D. dabbenena (Critically Endangered) Inaccessible Island (Tristan da Cunha, UK) Spectacled...
{mosimage} Tristan da Cunha, an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic, is one of the World’s smallest communities, with a permanent population of just 264 islanders. Impressive then, that it has this month created its first...
to ACAP. These territories support large populations of a number of ACAP-listed species, three of which are endemic to the Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic, including the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena ( click...
{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea 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...
{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...
Spectacled Petrel Procellaria conspicillata from Brazilian waters to its single breeding site on Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha Group. The research has been conducted by Leandro Bugoni ( Projeto Albatroz and University of Glasgow). Leandro...
del Sur)[1]. 2. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland extended its ratification to include the Territory of Tristan da Cunha. The above action was effected in Canberra on 13 April 2006 when notification by diplomatic note No.17/06 from...
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...
enormous distances across oceans during foraging flights and migratory journeys. For some populations, such as of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of the UK's Inaccessible Island, the Wandering Albatross D. exulans of Australia's Macquarie...
Reserve and Inaccessible Island Nature Reserve Gough and Inaccessible Islands, part of the UK's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, are both proclaimed nature reserves, were designated Ramsar Wetland Sites of International Importance on 20 November...
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...
by boat and helicopter, causing 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;...
The extended site includes both islands and their territorial waters out to 12 nautical miles. ACAP species breeding are Tristan Albatross D. dabbenena (endemic to the World Heritage Site), AtlanticYellow-nosed Albatross T. chlororhynchos , Sooty...
de la Naturaleza. 14 pp. UNITED KINGDOM Brown, Derek 2007. A Feasibility Study for the Eradication of Rodents from Tristan da Cunha . Sandy: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 36 pp. Brown, Derek 2007. Preliminary Operational Plan for the...
A Visitor's Guide 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....
reports on the Albatross Task 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...
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 first be spent on Gough Island, where the 28th year of a demographic study of the...
past Chair and current Vice-Chair of the ACAP Advisory Committee. In early September Anton travelled to the main island of Tristan da Cunha on South Africa's Antarctic supply/research vessel, the S.A. Agulhas , for a three-week visit. While at Tristan...
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 have been afforded the status of Wetlands of...
