Conservation Problems on Tristan da Cunha

• 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

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.