Petitioning the United Kingdom Government via its Prime Minister is a long tradition, now brought up-to-date by the use of an on-line facility. In 2009 Phil Bateman MBE e-petitioned No. 10: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make the...
The Royal Naval Bird Watching Society ( RNBWS ) has awarded a Captain Simpson Scholarship 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...
Tristan da Cunha (part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) in the South Atlantic has adopted an implementation plan for the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP). The plan has...
Nightingale Island is the smallest and oldest of the three islands in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic . It is also the only island in the group to have offshore islands that are significant for seabirds. These islets are seldom...
An international conference, entitled "island Invasives: Eradication and Management" was held on the Tamaki Campus of the University of Auckland, New Zealand from 8-12 February 2010. The conference was held under the auspices of the World Conservation...
In what is practically their only breeding site in the world, a census of incubating Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena was recently conducted as part of Gough Island's long-term population monitoring project. Gough, situated in the South Atlantic,...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project is about to get underway after a number of years of planning. Aerial baiting of the island is scheduled for June this year. The Aurora Australia is set to travel to the island from Hobart, Australia next...
UPDATE: click here for more news on this story In a paper published in the July issue of Ibis , the International Journal of Avian Science, Geoff Hilton and Richard Cuthbert review the impacts of introduced mammalian predators on UK Overseas...
The United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean is comprised of four main islands, three of which are not permanently inhabited. Two of these "outer" islands, Gough and Inaccessible, are nature reserves, Ramsar...
Recent research on South Atlantic Gough Island is providing insight into the demographics of ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea . Threatened both by drowning on fishery longlines and depredation by introduced mammals, the conservation status...
An international team of nine marine ornithologists, island conservation managers and rope-access technicians (and ACAP's Information Officer) leaves Cape Town this afternoon on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , for Gough...
Enderby Island at 700 ha still remains the largest island from which the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus has definitely been removed - back in 1993. Enderby is part of New Zealand's Auckland Island group and supports a population of ACAP-listed...
A demographic study of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus has been started on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the species' most northerly breeding locality. There are three major breeding sites on the island, and the one closest to the...
White-phase Southern Giant Petrels occur more commonly at high latitudes. Gough Island in the South Atlantic is the most northerly breeding locality for the species and records of white-phase individuals are rare there, mostly seen during winter (Ryan...
During a two-day stopover at the main island of Tristan da Cunha 413 km from Gough Island from 30 September to 2 October 2010 repeated daytime counts were made of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus attracted by recreational fishing activities...
Yet once more the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are having a very poor breeding year. Of an estimated 1826 incubating birds in early February 2010 only 406 chicks could be counted this and last month,...
Although it is known that Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena regularly visit the south-west Atlantic, there are as yet no definite records of the species from Uruguayan waters, with published satellite-tracking data for the species off South...
Hot on the heels of the news of a colour-banded Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena from Gough Island photographed in Uruguayan waters ( click here ), a report of two colour-banded birds off South Africa on the other side of the South Atlantic has now...
Natural and unnatural predators of ACAP-listed species range from sharks (notably of Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatross fledglings in the North Pacific) to the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus of Tristan Albatross...
A great albatross of the genus Diomedea was seen during a Zest for Birds pelagic trip on the m.v. Zest II on 18 September 2010, at a position around 34° 47.5'S, 18° 18.5'E, some 28 nm SSW of Cape Point, Western Cape, South Africa. The bird was in a...
