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The latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter refers to seabirds, which are amongst the most globally threatened birds, often as a consequence of incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries. At South Georgia, wandering albatrosses have declined since the 1970s, and are listed by the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) as one of nine global High-Priority populations for conservation.
A new Research and Monitoring Plan has been launched to help support the management of the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area, MPA. The announcement was done in the January edition of the Sough Georgia Newsletter.
Community organisations planted 143 seedlings along the coastline of Prickly Pear Island, where mangroves died.
Share: Two multi-year research projects led by Beneath the Waves (BTW), aimed at increasing understanding of the biodiversity of deep-sea waters in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, were chosen to receive funding through the Darwin Plus program. The program, also known as the Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund, provides funding for the “conservation of unique and globally significant environments found in U.K. Overseas Territories.” On June 5, the U.K. Government announced, as part of World Environment Day, that it would invest £8 million [approximately $9.5 million USD] ove...
Governor Martyn Roper announced today that the UK's environment department will be giving the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos £500,000 (CI$590,000) to help manage stony coral tissue loss disease which is devastating coral reefs in the region.