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MacGillivray’s Prions: good 2022-23 breeding success but evidence of mouse predation recorded
For decades the seabirds on Gough Island had been struggling with introduced House Mice eating their eggs and chicks, leading to...
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Andrew Callender
- Feb 10
- 4 min
Breeding birds & multiplying mice: what next for Gough?
The spectacular breeding success of seabirds on Gough Island over the past year has gone some way in easing the desolation so many of us...
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- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
Phenomenal seabird breeding success on Gough Island: vindication of our restoration strategy
In 2021 a large consortium of conservation organisations led by RSPB and Tristan da Cunha tried to eradicate invasive non-native house...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
News Update: Mouse found on Gough
Today, Tuesday 14 December, the Gough Island Restoration Team is devastated to report that following the mouse eradication attempt...
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Adam Naylor, RZSS Veterinary Surgeon
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
A veterinary adventure
I first became involved in the Gough Island Restoration Programme over seven years ago when the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland...
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Sophie Thomas
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
2021: a mixed bag for Tristan albatrosses
Every year our Overwintering Team conduct their ‘round island’ count at this time to establish how many Tristan albatross chicks survived...
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Amy King
- Oct 16, 2021
- 4 min
Caring for Gough's land birds come rain, wind and snow...
Ever since my pal worked on Gough Island, it had been a place I had hoped I would one day be able to visit, especially with a love for...
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Pete McClelland
- Sep 10, 2021
- 6 min
Now, we wait
As I sit back in Cape Town waiting for my flight home to New Zealand, it’s a great thought to consider that we’ve actually done it –...
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- Aug 23, 2021
- 4 min
Safeguarding Gough's land birds
As a penguinologist, RSPB’s Conservation Scientist Antje Steinfurth gets to visit some fascinating and far-flung places. Her latest...
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Sophie Thomas
- Aug 4, 2021
- 3 min
Previously on Gough...
It’s hard now to believe that when scientists first wondered if mice could be behind the new wounds being seen on Tristan albatrosses it...
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Dr Hareen De Silva
- Jul 30, 2021
- 5 min
The Human Element
My main job is a General Practitioner (GP) working in London, UK, so I spend most of my days with an abundance of human contact, whether...
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Kim Stevens
- Jun 26, 2021
- 3 min
And then there were 47!
Upon our arrival on Gough Island at the end of September 2020, the three of us in the overwintering field team had to dive headfirst into...
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Dr Araceli Samaniego
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Preparing for winter
Guest blog by Dr Araceli Samaniego (Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research) I enjoy, and I feel I need to, eat spicy food. I’m Mexican. The...
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Noé Silva Estudillo
- Jun 3, 2021
- 5 min
A long wait to reconnect in one of the most remote places on earth
Guest blog by Noé Silva Estudillo, Technical Director, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C. Noé on a reconnaissance flight...
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Dr Araceli Samaniego
- May 22, 2021
- 3 min
'Rediscovering this day' – International Day for Biological Diversity
Guest blog by Dr Araceli Samaniego (Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research) This morning, my phone reminded me that 6 years ago I was with my...
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Wes Jolley
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
One man’s sparrow is another man’s albatross!
Guest blog by Wes Jolley (Island Conservation) This is my first time in South Africa, and one of my hopes to keep me sane during...
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Kim Stevens
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
First confirmed death of adult Tristan albatross due to house mice
The two ‘round-island’ counts that we do as the Overwintering Team on Gough Island are usually one of the highlights of our year. We go...
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Antje Steinfurth
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
Happy Penguin Awareness Day!
It is Penguin Awareness Day, a day not to celebrate how undeniably cute they are but to create much needed awareness of their precarious...
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- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
Celebrating Christmas on one of the world’s most remote islands
Secret Santa, tinned vegetables and pecan pie Gough Island might be a tiny speck in the Atlantic Ocean, but that doesn’t mean it’s beyond...
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- Nov 26, 2020
- 2 min
RSPB Council gives the go ahead for 2021 restoration operation
Following the postponement of the Gough Island Restoration operation this year due to Covid-19, RSPB council trustees met on Tuesday...
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