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 plight). The bird no longer breeds on the...
mortality to birds at sea (mainly on long-lines) and House Mouse predation on chicks at its sole significant breeding site, Gough Island. The latter problem seems to be getting worse, with the 2008 chick production at an all time low. In the north of...
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...
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 item) and the restoration of...
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 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos will be...
of the Tristan Departments of Conservation (Trevor Glass) and of Fisheries (James Glass). Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island A prepared document "ACAP Implementation Plan for the Tristan da Cunha islands: review of current work and a...
Gough and Inaccessible are two island nature 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...
It is now well-known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are facing a double onslaught from longline mortality at sea and from chick predation by introduced House Mice on land. A measure of breeding production for the whole...
Tristan da Cunha. The Great Shearwaters are being tracked by Rob Ronconi of Dalhousie University, Canada who is currently on Gough Island in the Tristan Group with the ACAP Information Officer. During their time at Gough geolocators are being collected...
In 1982 on my first visit to Gough Island, part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, I marked a number of nests of the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos and banded...
at the end of his September liaison visit to Tristan da Cunha and its Conservation and Fisheries Departments to visit Gough Island for a few days over the first week of October. As a guest of the South African National Antarctic Programme he has been...
), it is pleasing to report that the population of at least one ACAP-listed species appears to be remaining stable on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Gough is the most northerly extant breeding locality for Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes...
Helicopters in misty but calm conditions from close to the island's impressive coastal cliffs. The Agulhas had sailed from Gough Island the previous day, on completion of the annual relief of South Africa's weather station on that island. Gough and...
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...
