Tag: Ascension Island

• Monday, December 1st 2025 - 07:44 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories’ wildlife hotspots to benefit under new strategy

  

  For first time UK government and all our Overseas Territories unite behind a joint ambitious and actionable biodiversity strategy. This strategy is published as leaders from the UK Overseas Territories and UK Ministers gathered in London for the Joint Ministerial Council. UK’s Overseas Territories are home to 94% of the UK’s unique species and a quarter of the world’s penguins. In total over 1,800 endemic species live in the Overseas Territories.

• Thursday, August 29th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

  Falklands travelers to benefit with seats for the Ascension/St Helena Airlink

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has informed that an agreement has been signed with Ascension Island Government to guarantee travelers from the Falkland Islands ten seats on each flight connecting Ascension and St Helena – known as the St Helena Airlink. This agreement removes the risk of travelers from the Falklands not being able to book a seat by guaranteeing availability.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  St. Helena residents in Falklands can transit to Jamestown via Ascension Island

  

  The Ascension Islands Government Resources Directorate has announced new travel arrangements that will enable residents of St Helena to transit between the Falkland Islands and St. Helena via Ascension. The UK Ministry of Defense have introduced these arrangements with immediate effect following consultations with the FCDO, AIG, SHG and FIG.

• Tuesday, August 8th 2023 - 14:14 UTC

  Home Office confirms Ascension Island plan for asylum seekers has been revived, “times change”

  

  London media is reporting a Home Office minister confirmed the UK Government is looking at “additional measures” following reports that plans to send asylum seekers to Ascension Island could be revived.

• Monday, August 7th 2023 - 08:32 UTC

  London considering Ascension island as plan B, if the scheme to send irregular migrants to Rwanda fails

  

  The UK Government is reportedly considering reviving plans to fly people who arrive in the UK by unauthorized means to Ascension Island. Multiple reports say ministers and officials are considering the island as a “plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails. plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Express claims UK “foiled Russian plot to sabotage fuel pipeline in Ascension island”

  

  According to a piece published by the Daily Express and credited to their Defense Editor, Marco Giannangeli, British specialists managed to secure a vital pipeline for the South Atlantic, following an intelligence tip-off that it was being targeted by Russian saboteurs.

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Ascension Island airport to reopen to wide-body traffic by 2022

  

  The runway at Georgetown Wideawake Airport on Ascencion Island will be repaired by 2022 allowing AirTanker-operated A 330-200 flights to return, Fluor, the company which won the contract, said in a statement.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Johnson at G7 summit led the way in ocean protection; Ascension island declares 100% of its waters an MPA

  

  During remarks at the close of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Aichi targets—goals set nearly a decade ago as part of the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity—must be “replaced with new, more ambitious targets to help us get back the biodiversity that this planet is losing, and has lost.”

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 21:23 UTC

  Ascension Island MPA; satellite data suggests conservation success likely

  

  If United Nations goals are met, 10% of the world’s oceans could be marine reserves by 2020, but it has been suggested that many of these reserves will represent protection on paper but not in practice. However, new research trialling remote satellite monitoring of illegal fishing activity in the protected waters of Ascension Island from the Oxford Program of Sustainable Oceans suggests that here at least these “paper park” fears are not fully supported by evidence.

• Thursday, May 10th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

  Falklands caught in the post Brexit Galileo space controversy

  

  United Kingdom ministers are unilaterally considering stopping EU access to the Galileo satellite earth station in the Falklands and Ascension, according to reports in the UK press. The move comes after Brussels chief Brexit negotiator, Michael Barnier, stated that UK companies would have to be excluded from the development of sensitive Galileo infrastructure following Brexit due to security concerns.