• Gough Island restoration programme - Gough Team 63
    Great news: our Gough Island restoration programme has been given the green light! Meet the intrepid conservationists who'll spend 13 months on one of the planet's most remote islands. Their mission...
  • Saving species from extinction: an update on the Gough Island Restoration Programme
    Planning to remove invasive mice from a UK Overseas Territory to save two Critically Endangered species from extinction has stepped up in recent weeks. The Gough Island Restoration Programme is one of...
  • Good news for a Friday: green light given to Gough Island Restoration Programme
    The RSPB has a long history of working in the UK Overseas Territories including, of course, those in the Caribbean which have been so badly hit by Hurricane Irma (about which my colleague Elizabeth Radford...
  • Gough Island: the Perspective of an Island Restoration Expert
    Gough Island, part of the UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha located in the remote South Atlantic, is considered one of the most important seabird islands on the planet. A World Heritage Site,...
  • New research about the scale of mouse predation on seabirds gives greater urgency to the Gough Island Restoration Programme
    For anyone following the tragic story of Gough Island, you’ll know that the island’s unique seabirds are in a dramatic decline and that predation from invasive non-native mice is the primary cause. But...