Tag: RSPB

• Saturday, May 31st 2025 - 13:55 UTC

  Falklands, Darwin Plus successes, peatlands, tussac grass, Sei whales, protection of Rockhopper penguins

  

  The following lines were written by Katie-jo Luxton, director of conservation at the RSPB underlining the significance of the Darwin Plus scheme for the Falklands. “Falkland Islands Conservationists have warned that the UK Government’s retreat from environmental support there would “be a real concern”.

• Saturday, May 31st 2025 - 13:52 UTC

  British Family concern with Darwin Plus suspension and possible axing of vital conservation funds

  

  Environmentalists, UK MPs and the same British Overseas Territories fear that Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be axing a vital fund, some £10 million to the Darwin Plus scheme, which is essential for scientific research in places such as the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Falklands Conservation 2-year project to eliminate invasive species from New Island

  

  Falklands Conservation (FC) has announced the launching of its new Darwin Plus-funded project for long-term restoration work on New Island Nature Reserve. New Island is one of the remotest islands in the Falklands archipelago, which runs a wildlife reserve and centre for scientific research, expected to considerably improve with the appointment of a new Bio-security and Invasives Manager.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 17:12 UTC

  Survival of Gough Island seabirds threatened by giant mice

  

  The already endangered Tristan albatross and other seabird species are under threat from a particular breed of mice in Gough Island in the South Atlantic ocean, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds warned Monday.Other species endangered by the mice include the Gough bunting and Atlantic petrel, the RSPB said.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:16 UTC

  UK launches environmental and climate fund for Overseas Territories

  

  The UK has launched a new Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund, which consolidates funds from the Foreign Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Department for International Development, dedicated to environmental and conservation projects in those territories.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:57 UTC

  Black-browed Albatross success in Falklands not reflected in South Georgia

  

  The July edition of the South Georgia Newsletter has an interesting comment on the recent announcement that the Falklands’ population of black-browed Albatross has seen a healthy increase in the number of breeding birds, information that has been submitted to BirdLife International for use in the Red List assessment process

• Sunday, April 22nd 2012 - 22:27 UTC

  Falklands’ fisheries: 25 years of success and one of the two best managed in the world

  

  The announcement this week that the catches for the first loligo season for 2012 totaled 34,900 metric tones, equal to more than the entire catch for 2011, coincides with the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Falkland Island fishery.

• Monday, March 5th 2012 - 19:22 UTC

  Dalby man has his own island in the Falklands, a photographers’ paradise

  

  There aren’t too many people in the world who can say they own an island, but John Hellowell is one of them. Necker Island it isn’t, but Dalby man John Hellowell is justifiably proud of his piece of paradise – a small nature reserve in the Falkland Islands, known as The Kidneys.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 20:47 UTC

  UK promises more support for the Overseas Territories biodiversity strategy

  

  Overseas Territories Minister Henry Bellingham met representatives of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Wednesday, and received a pledge signed by almost 17,000 of their members, asking the UK Government to ensure that the valuable biodiversity of the Overseas Territories is preserved.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:47 UTC

  South Georgia mentioned as example of longline fisheries seabirds protection

  

  A new global estimate of the impact of longline fisheries on seabirds reveals that, despite efforts to reduce seabird deaths, upwards of 300,000 birds are still being killed every year. However South Georgia is praised for having imposed strict regulations that have seen seabird deaths as bycatch drop by 99%.