Just over a year ago, many of us were gathered in Edinburgh at the Biosecurity for LIFE end-of-project conference, hopefully making lasting connections and gaining access to new opportunities for biosecurity collaboration and information sharing. Whilst Biosecurity for LIFE was celebrating a successful outcome - 95% of UK’s seabird island...
Carole Davis tells us about her experience as a biosecurity volunteer and the great work she does helping to protect our native seabirds on Papa Stour in Shetland.
In this blog, Biosecurity Officer, Holly Paget-Brown shares the role Biosecurity Officers play in getting Rapid Incursion Response Hubs set up. The project collaborated with an existing hub team, on the Isles of Scilly, and have now set up a further six hubs around the UK.
In this blog, Biosecurity for LIFE project executive Laura Bambini shares what the project saw and found out on a recent biosecurity study trip to Auckland and the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand. In November 2022, the project visited islands and met with organisations involved in efforts to safeguard seabirds in New Zealand from the threat of invasive non-native predators and discussed awareness-raising campaigns, traps, rodenticide use, dogs, checks, signage… sounds familiar, right? We love that there is so much we can share with and learn from each other in island biosecurity, no matter where in the world we haul from.
Biosecurity training for new staff takes place in the beautiful Shiant Islands in April 2023.
Guest blog: In this week's blog we welcome Lisa Morgan, Head of Islands and Marine Conservation at the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales to talk about how they responded to a shipwreck on Skomer Island last December and the biosecurity risk this posed.
Guest blog: In this week’s blog we welcome Emily Williams, Senior Marine Policy Officer with RSPB Cymru, who joined Biosecurity for LIFE in the Western Isles as part of her sabbatical this summer.
