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...

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...

Guest blog by Noé Silva Estudillo, Technical Director, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C. Noé on a reconnaissance flight...

Guest blog by Dr Araceli Samaniego (Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research) This morning, my phone reminded me that 6 years ago I was with my...

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...

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...

It is Penguin Awareness Day, a day not to celebrate how undeniably cute they are but to create much needed awareness of their precarious...

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...

Following the postponement of the Gough Island Restoration operation this year due to Covid-19, RSPB council trustees met on Tuesday...

Having turned from balls of fluff into 10kg chicks over the past 8 months, this year’s Tristan albatrosses are finally getting ready to...

Our journey from being appointed as the new RSPB field team to our first day on Gough Island has felt like a long one – perhaps due to...

We wrote this blog before hearing about the sinking of the MFV Geo Searcher off the north coast of Gough Island. We are relieved to hear...

Six months after having made the devastating decision to postpone the 2020 restoration of Gough Island, our team is back in strength and...

Blog by Michelle Risi, Gough Field Assistant Being on one of the most remote islands in the world during a global pandemic is seemingly...

Blog by Michelle Jones, Gough Field Assistant Despite surface nesting seabirds, like albatrosses and giant petrels often stealing the...

Blog by Alexis Osborne, Gough Island Field Assistant House mice (Mus musculus) were introduced to Gough Island in the 19th century....

Blog by Christopher Jones, Senior Filed Assistant, RSPB The birds of Gough Island often get the spotlight, and rightly so given that many...

Blog by Dr Steffen Oppel, RSPB Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science The life of an albatross chick between...

Blog by Michelle Jones and Laura Beasley For International Women's Day this year, we are celebrating the achievements of Michelle Jones,...

Written by Chris Jones, Senior Field Assistant Probably one of the more challenging activities we are tasked with on Gough is the Tristan...