• Assessing bycatch risk from gillnet fisheries
    Bycatch (marine species caught unintentionally while fishing for another target species) is one of the major threats affecting seabirds globally. Distressing images of albatross caught in longline fisheries...
  • EU moves to put a halt to seabird bycatch
    Seabirds are amazingly adapted to some of the harshest environments on earth, facing gales, huge seas and freezing temperatures. Some migrate vast distances, following currents and shoals of fish,...
  • The Seabird Monitoring Programme is changing
    From this month, the Seabird Monitoring Programme (SMP) will be changing in how it’s being run. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) has formed a partnership with the BTO and RSPB, to run this...
  • The role of Nature-based Solutions for climate change mitigation in the UK
    Today's blog is by Conservation Scientist Tom Bradfer-Lawrence and Senior Conservation Scientist Rob Field. Tom led this work whilst working in the RSPB’s Centre for Conservation Science, but is now a...
  • Using sniffer dogs to count seabirds
    Surveying for nocturnal, ground nesting seabirds can often be fraught with difficulties. In today’s blog Siân Denney, Science Communications Volunteer, explains a new RSPB paper which has trialled a novel...