Conservation Problems on Tristan da Cunha

The author spent two years, 1963–65, as schoolmaster on Tristan da Cunha, during which he spent four weeks on Nightingale Island. On the main island he found that bird stocks were being depleted and the islanders taking too many eggs and young; on Nightingale, however, where there are over two milli...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Oryx
Main Author: Flint, J. H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1967
Subjects:
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Tristan
Main Island
Inaccessible Island
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300005792
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030605300005792
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Summary:The author spent two years, 1963–65, as schoolmaster on Tristan da Cunha, during which he spent four weeks on Nightingale Island. On the main island he found that bird stocks were being depleted and the islanders taking too many eggs and young; on Nightingale, however, where there are over two million pairs of great shearwaters, the harvest of these birds could be greater. Inaccessible Island, which like Nightingale, is without cats, dogs or rats, should be declared a wildlife sanctuary.

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