The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is once again advertising three field assistant positions to work on World Heritage Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months over 2018/19, with a training period prior to...
Gough Island and its territorial waters in the South Atlantic, a UK Overseas Territory, is a Tristan da Cunha nature reserve, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance, an Important Bird & Biodiversity Area...
A year forward from this week, the long-awaited attempt to eradicate “killer” House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island will commence by the UK’s Royal Society for Bird Protection ( RSPB ). Success will give the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross...
Yves Cherel ( Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé , Villiers-en-Bois, France) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Pollution on mercury levels in feathers from 20 albatross species. The paper’s abstract follows: “Albatrosses...
Alex Bond ( The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK ) and colleagues have published open access in the Journal of Ornithology on the likely years of extinction of three breeding birds on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The Critically Endangered...
The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has postponed the intended eradication of the albatross-killing House Mice Mus musculus of Gough Island in the South Atlantic from next year to 2020. According to the RSPB this will allow more...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is seeking an Operational Manager experienced in the management of pest eradication and/or control projects, ideally involving aerial baiting, to oversee a House Mouse eradication...
Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena breeding on World Heritage Gough Island in the South Atlantic are at great risk of extinction due in part to introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking and killing their chicks in the hours...
Anthony Caravaggi ( School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences , University College Cork, Ireland) and colleagues have yesterday published open access in Ibis - International Journal of Avian Science on estimates of the numbers of breeding...
Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, one of the world’s smallest communities, forms part of a United Kingdom Overseas Territory. The major source of the island group’s income is from fishing, primarily inshore for Tristan Crayfish or Rock Lobster...
Inaccessible Island , one of the United Kingdom’s Tristan da Cunha islands, is part of a World Heritage Site in the South Atlantic. Uninhabited and hard to land on – hence its name – it is rarely visited by marine ornithologists. Supporting four...
Christopher Jones ( FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the journal Polar Biology on introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking adults of two species of threatened...
Through the South African National Antarctic Programme ( SANAP ) the Marine Apex Predator Research Unit ( MAPRU ); Coastal and Marine Research Institute, Nelson Mandela University in collaboration with the FitzPatrick Institute of Ornithology ,...
An Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarchi carteri was photographed ashore after first being seen in fllght on Gough Island in the South Atlantic on 17 January this year, resting among breeding Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses T. chlororhynchos -...
Over 25 January – 2 February this year an island-based research team of the RSPB ’s Gough Island Restoration Programme undertook the annual whose-island count of incubating Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena (read more on team...
A team of 50 authors from 40 institutions led by Nick Holmes ( Island Conservation , Santa Cruz, California, USA) has published open access in the online journal PLOS ONE on the results of analysing a data set of 1279 islands worldwide whose Endangered...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB) is leading the eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus from the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic in the austral winter of next year as a key component of the Gough...
At last month’s Advisory Committee meeting ( AC11 ) in Brazil the ACAP Secretariat tabled an Information Paper ( AC11 Inf 05 ) with the proposal to initiate a World Albatross Day. The committee expressed considerable support for this initiative, as it...
At its most recent meeting ( AC11 ) ACAP’s Advisory Committee expressed support for a proposal to hold a World Albatross Day to aid in giving greater visibility to the conservation crisis that continues to face albatrosses and petrels. An...
Quite a few animals, or groups of animals, mainly for conservation purposes, have a "world day", some better known than others (think elephants, rhinos, tigers and penguins to name just a few). Today marks International Cat Day , "created in 2002 by...
