Invasive non-native predators can quickly decimate breeding colonies by eating eggs, chicks, and adult birds. We have seen this happen on islands all over the world, including Ramsey island on the Pembrokeshire coast. While a rat eradication was successful on Ramsey and many species, in particular the Manx Shearwater are...
In this blog we welcome Sarah Havery, Senior Species Recovery Officer who recently spent two weeks assisting Holly in Shetland as part of her sabbatical and thinking how projects either side of the Atlantic can work together to promote good biosecurity
In this blog Holly, our Biosecurity Officer in Shetland, talks us through the recent work she has been doing with the community on Fetlar.
In this blog our Biosecurity Officer Sarah recounts a long and tiring day to the Flannan Isles to set up rodent surveillance and count the seabirds.
In the last blog we followed Tom on his journey to North Rona. Here we pick up the story aboard Enchanted Isle heading west towards Sula Sgeir.
Situated 70km north of the Isle of Lewis and 71km north west of Cape Wrath, North Rona and Sula Sgeir are two of the most remote islands Biosecurity for LIFE are working on. We always knew that luck and time would be required and on our side to land.