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Island Conservation
National Geographic’s podcast ‘Overheard at National Geographic’ explores the threat that invasive zombie mice pose to Marion Island’s native seabirds and the hope that the restoration of islands such as Anacapa Island brings. Warning: Graphic photographs. Viewer Discretion is Advised. Marion Island is a remote, sub-antarctic island where most people would imagine humans have had […]
Plastics could be responsible for the spread of invasive species around the world’s oceans. After the 2011 tsunami off the coast of Japan, researchers watched as debris carried Japanese mussels, barnacles, and other marine life across the Pacific Ocean to the coast of Hawaii and mainland US. Prior to the tsunami, no one really realized […]
Novelist and essayist Jonathan Franzen highlights the worldwide decline of seabirds, the threats they face, and how Island Conservation and other organizations are working to prevent extinctions on islands around the world. Some might imagine that seabirds which nest on remote islands and spend the majority of their lifetime at sea would be safe from […]
The Falkland Islands have been a center of past dispute. Today those islands support hundreds of birds and offer nature a place to flourish. The Falkland Islands comprise a resilient archipelago east of South America’s southern Patagonia coast. On a recent trip, National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen commented that he’s “rarely encountered such an intact […]
James Russell visits Stewart Island to find out how people feel about the proposed efforts to remove invasive predators. By: James Russell Rakiura/Stewart Island is the southernmost inhabited point of New Zealand. Here, islanders carve out an existence for themselves among the harsh but beautiful environment. I was visiting to understand how the community feels […]
James Russell explains findings from two newly released scientific papers that highlight the importance of biosecurity. By: James Russell Invasive alien species are the major threat to islands by most metrics, and two open access papers published recently highlight this threat in different ways. In Nature Ecology and Evolution Wayne Dawson and colleagues identify global hotspots of […]
Some of world’s rarest birds rebound on Pacific islands cleared of invasive predators Five remote Pacific islands are once again safe havens for four of our world’s rarest bird species following the success of one of the most ambitious island restoration projects ever implemented. Just two years after ambitious efforts by a team of international […]
Further research on Ascension Island’s human-engineered ecosystem could generate insight into current environmental challenges. The challenge on Ascension Island is to maintain a balance of the new and the old. A novel ecosystem is an ecosystem engineered by humans. Over the last 150 years, non-native plant species were planted on the remote Island in the Atlantic […]
The Seychelles North Island Resort supports ecotourism while protecting the islands’ native species. The North Island of Seychelles (sey-chelz) was the recipient of the National Geographic World Legacy Award for Conserving the Natural World. National Geographic annually collaborates with the international tourism trade fair ITB Berlin to acknowledge five outstanding sustainable franchises within the ecotourism industry. […]
National Geographic created an opportunity for scientists and researchers in the Galápagos to share their stories from the field with a “Sciencetelling” Bootcamp. Researchers are often drawn to the Galápagos archipelago, where the abundance of unique species sparks the hope of making exciting scientific discoveries just as Charles Darwin did. National Geographic created a multi-day course, a “Sciencetelling […]