Bouvet Island is situated at 54°S and is considered to be one of the remotest islands in the world: the nearest land is Gough Island, 1860 km away. It has been a Nature Reserve proclaimed by Royal Resolution (equivalent to IUCN Category Ia, area managed...
Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena, photographed as part of a newly-established demographic study in Gonydale on Gough Island, part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The poster shows the breadth of...
seabird-friendly measures. Issue No. 3 for November 2007 contains an article on the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island , threatened at sea from longlining and on land by the introduced House Mice Mus musculus . This Endangered...
dabbenena may merit being recategorized from Endangered to Critically Endangered. Breeding by the Tristan Albatross on Gough Island in 2007 continues to be very poor, with only 427 chicks being counted in September 2007, giving an estimated breeding...
Planning to get rid of the rodents of Tristan and Gough The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the United Kingdom Partner of BirdLife International, has recently made available a review* of the impacts of rodents on islands in the Tristan da...
Field guide for Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island published A field guide to the animals and plants of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island has recently been published*. Edited by Peter Ryan of the University of Cape Town with the help of a team of...
). This has been due to the ongoing predation of chicks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island , the species’ main breeding site in the group. A relict population (less than five pairs) breeds on (rodent-free) Inaccessible Island , but...
This recategorization is due to the continued predation of chicks by the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island, the species’ main breeding site in the group, as well as longline mortality at sea in the South Atlantic Ocean. Since 2001 when...
{mosimage} On Thursday 4 September 2008, an expedition will sail from Cape Town, South Africa for Gough Island in the South Atlantic to continue a demographic study of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . The Tristan Albatross, an ACAP-listed...
the third-chosen laureate was Dr Ross Wanless, whose thesis “Impacts of the introduced House Mouse on the seabirds of Gough Island” concentrated on the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena , an ACAP-listed species whose chicks are...
{mosimage} Gonydale on Gough Island in the South Atlantic is the site of a long-term demographic study being conducted on the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena by the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Royal Society...
Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island in the South Atlantic has had in recent years a consistently low breeding success, due to introduced House Mice Mus musculus regularly killing its chicks during the winter...
{mosimage} The United Kingdom's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( defra ) has today announced that the Gough and Inaccessible Island Nature Reserves in the UK's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha will be added to the Ramsar List...
for inclusion in the World Heritage List . Wellington: Department of Conservation. 76 pp. ISBN 0-478-01910-0. UNITED KINGDOM Gough and Inaccessible Islands Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1995 (Gough Island) and extended to include Inaccessible...
da Cunha Association. 31 pp. ISSN 0953-0827. www.tristandc.com . Hänel, Christine, Chown, Steven L. & Gaston, Kevin J. 2005. Gough Island - a Natural History . Stellenbosch: SUN Press. 169 pp. ISBN 1-920109-03-X. www.africansunmedia.co.za . Kornet-van...
. Tristan da Cunha 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. Ryan, Peter G. & Glass, James P. 2001 . Inaccessible...
{mosimage} It is now well known that the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic kill large numbers of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year, directly leading to the species’ recent re-designation as...
). In October 2008 the United 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...
(Critically 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)...
Birds and the University of Cape Town on monitoring of Tristan Diomedea dabbenena and Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses on Gough Island. Three other ACAP-listed species are monitored in the Tristan Group: Spectacled Petrels Procellaria conspicillata on...
