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  • How sniffer dogs, chocolate wax and boat rope guards help UK seabird islands!

    How sniffer dogs, chocolate wax and boat rope guards help UK seabird islands!

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    To mark Invasive Species Week, Tessa Coledale, RSPB Biosecurity for England Officer, takes a look at how sniffer dogs, chocolate wax and boat rope guards help protect UK seabird islands from invasive predators and what simple steps you can take to he...
    • 9 May 2025
  • Unlocking private finance for ecosystem restoration

    Unlocking private finance for ecosystem restoration

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    Unlocking funding, particularly private finance, has been identified as a major challenge for conservation groups and practitioners looking to develop nature restoration projects. To help provide practical guidance on this issue, a taskforce of key p...
    • 8 May 2025
  • Species volunteers join Black Grouse survey efforts in North Wales

    Species volunteers join Black Grouse survey efforts in North Wales

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    Your alarm goes off…it feels like the middle of the night, the world is still sleeping. Despite your tired eyes, you immediately feel a tingle of excitement. It’s the morning of the first lek count of the season! Katie Waller from t...
    • 25 Mar 2025
  • Group of rangers crouching on forest path

    People Power: Behind the scenes of rainforest conservation

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    With November’s UN Climate Conference COP30 set to be held in the Brazilian Amazon, 2025 will see the world’s tropical forests put firmly in the spotlight. These fragile ecosystems, rich in biodiversity but facing huge pressures, are vita...
    • 21 Mar 2025
  • The conservationist's dilemma - an update on the science, policy and practice of the impact of predators on wild birds (11)

    martinfowlie
    martinfowlie
    The RSPB seeks to manage its reserves through sound habitat management but sometimes at certain sites, we have to take the decision to remove individuals of certain species, in order to protect threatened animal, bird or plant species.   In most...
    • 19 Mar 2025
  • Diana’s Peak Ridge and views beyond the St Helena Peaks National Park

    Women, Data and Conservation: Protecting St Helena's unique biodiversity

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are excited to share the behind-the-scenes story of some of the women who work to protect biodiversity on the amazing island of St Helena. The work they are doing, funded by the UK Government...
    • 8 Mar 2025
  • Moo Deng’s wild family: The Pygmy Hippos of the Gola Rainforest

    Moo Deng’s wild family: The Pygmy Hippos of the Gola Rainforest

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    As Pygmy Hippos hit the world’s headlines and social media feeds thanks to attention-grabbing zoo animals, in the wild they are under pressure. To celebrate World Hippo Day, we dive deep into the world of this smaller, more elusive of the plane...
    • 12 Feb 2025
  • Birds, Bees, Phones & Loans: The unexpected ways to protect a rainforest

    Birds, Bees, Phones & Loans: The unexpected ways to protect a rainforest

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    Conservation often involves an important balance. To safeguard a global biodiversity hotspot, like the Gola Rainforest in West Africa, it is key to collaborate closely with local communities and develop sustainable livelihood opportunities that work ...
    • 20 Dec 2024
  • Distant Water Fleets: Out of sight, out of mind

    Distant Water Fleets: Out of sight, out of mind

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    This World Fisheries Day (21 November), Oliver Yates, Head of the International Marine Programme at the RSPB explains how we’re working with fishing fleets in the high seas to tackle the serious issue of seabird bycatch. One of the greatest joy...
    • 21 Nov 2024
  • Reflections and connections from Europe: Society for Ecological Restoration conference

    Reflections and connections from Europe: Society for Ecological Restoration conference

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    In August, Estonia’s city of Tartu welcomed 600 conservation practitioners and scientists for the Society for Ecological Restoration’s 14th conference in Europe. The regional event takes place every two years as an opportunity for partici...
    • 5 Nov 2024
  • Camera trap view showing three elephants standing in forest

    Eyes in the forest: How camera traps in Liberia are uncovering rainforest secrets and supporting future conservation

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    This week decision-makers from across the world have come together to discuss the future of our planet’s wildlife at the Convention on Biological Diversity international summit. One of the events at the summit will celebrate the Gola Rainforest...
    • 24 Oct 2024
  • Aerial view of pools and grassland with mountains behind

    Conservation at a Flyway Scale: Restoring Icelandic wetlands for migratory wading birds

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    Forget volcanoes belching out lava over a landscape of towering mountains and plunging waterfalls. If you venture away from the tourist trail and Instagram views, you will find a quieter but nonetheless awe-inspiring side to Iceland: its remarkable w...
    • 12 Sep 2024
  • White-rumped Vultures feeding on the ground

    The Value of Vultures

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    As we celebrate International Vulture Awareness Day on Saturday 7th September, Jake Zarins and Mary Davies from the RSPB’s Asian Vulture Programme reflect on how two newly published scientific papers are providing a needed spotlight on the impo...
    • 5 Sep 2024
  • Panoramic view of rainforest from the air

    ‘We are the frontline’: The Rangers of the Gola Rainforest

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    In the vast Gola Rainforest of Sierra Leone and Liberia, dedicated teams of rangers and ecoguards are working hard to protect this internationally important hotspot for biodiversity. To celebrate World Ranger Day, we head out on patrol with Gola&rsqu...
    • 31 Jul 2024
  • Celebrating 20 years of international collaborative work towards seabird conservation

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    Today marks the fifth annual celebration of World Albatross Day. The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) inaugurated this day in 2020 to be celebrated annually on 19th June, with the intention of increasing global awarenes...
    • 19 Jun 2024
  • Conservation at a Flyway Scale: Restoring vital habitat for migratory birds at South Africa’s Berg River Estuary

    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    After recently celebrating World Migratory Bird Day, we’re looking at an exciting new programme of RSPB work to protect and restore vital habitats for migratory birds, with the support of the Ecological Restoration Fund. This work will be focus...
    • 5 Jun 2024
  • World Curlew Day – Celebrating our work for Curlew on RSPB reserves

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    As we celebrate World Curlew Day on 21st April, it’s a time when these birds will be settling into their breeding territories on suitable RSPB reserves throughout the UK. Senior Ecologist, Iain Malzer, has been involved in overseeing Curlew wor...
    • 19 Apr 2024
  • Governments of the world commit to take new action for migratory species

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    Last month, Samarkand in Uzbekistan hosted the biggest ever global gathering of people focussed on the conservation of migratory species - more than 2,000 people from at least 150 countries, 111 of which are Parties to the UN Convention on Migratory ...
    • 15 Mar 2024
  • A group of Saiga Antelope © Genevieve Stephens/RSPB.

    Working towards human-wildlife coexistence in the golden grasslands of Kazakhstan: home to the world’s largest Saiga Antelope population

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    Today we’re joined by RSPB colleagues Sorrel Jones and Genevieve Stephens who travelled to western Kazakhstan in summer 2023 to work with local partners studying the overlaps between the growing Saiga Antelope population and livestock farmers w...
    • 21 Feb 2024
  • Harapan - an update

    martinfowlie
    martinfowlie
    Hutan Harapan is one of the last remaining fragments of lowland rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra; one of the most threatened types of rainforest in the world. The RSPB has been working with PT REKI, BirdLife International and Burung Ind...
    • 26 Jan 2024
  • Conservation at a Flyway Scale: Reconnecting and restoring savannah habitat in northern Ghana

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    The RSPB is launching an exciting new programme of work, with the support of the Ecological Restoration Fund, to protect and restore vital habitats for migrating birds. The work will target four key landscapes all of which sit on the East Atlantic Fl...
    • 10 Jan 2024
  • Protecting Gola: 10 years of the REDD+ conservation project in Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    In 2013, the RSPB helped to launch an ambitious partnership project to protect Gola, a unique rainforest in Sierra Leone, in order to benefit local people, protect wildlife and help fight the climate crisis. In today’s blog, Richard Dixon (Head...
    • 19 Dec 2023
  • The conservationist's dilemma - an update on the science, policy and practice of the impact of predators on wild birds (10)

    martinfowlie
    martinfowlie
    Nature conservation is often about making tough decisions about when to intervene and when not to. Decisions around how best to manage land for a particular species, or how to balance the needs of people versus nature. Sometimes - as is the case for ...
    • 15 Dec 2023
  • Protecting seabirds from fishing hooks - testing hook-shielding devices in South Africa

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    One of the most significant threats to seabirds is the incidental capture in fishing operations, also known as bycatch. However there are simple and effective measures that can be taken to reduce the impact of fisheries on seabirds, including the use...
    • 1 Dec 2023
  • Making a Marine Protected Area work – three years on for Tristan da Cunha

    Jos Ashpole
    Jos Ashpole
    In today's blog we’re celebrating the three-year anniversary of the Tristan da Cunha Marine Protection Zone, the largest no-take zone in the Atlantic Ocean. In this blog Janine Lavarello, Marine Protection Zone Officer, Tristan da Cunha Gov...
    • 17 Nov 2023
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