Mike Pienkowski

11 new species to science (6 endemic) described from Montserrat The part-Darwin-supported study in Montserrat in 2016-18 was led by UKOTCF in partnership with Montana State University (MSU), Montserrat National Trust (MNT), the Government of Montserrat (MoG) Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Lands, Housing & Environment (MATLHE), and Treweek Environmental Consultants (TEC). One element of the …

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New UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin 27 (Sargassum special) WCWG members have said previously that they would appreciate special editions of the Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin, focussing on particular issues. One of these, earlier in the year, was on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. We are very pleased to publish a special issue …

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Extended deadline for Parliamentary Inquiry into Environmental Democracy The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has published the evidence received so far (including UKOTCF’s) to its inquiry into Environmental Democracy. It has also extended the deadline for submissions from May to 26 August (due to the postponement of the Climate Change CoP and to allow …

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Championing UK’s most special species: the wildlife of the UK’s Overseas Territories & Crown Dependencies UKOTCF is implementing the concept of species champions , to raise awareness in Britain of the global importance of UKOT & CD wildlife, and reinforce feelings of shared responsibility across UK. Working with our network of some 30 partner organisations …

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Forum News 52 published Forum News 52 (July 2020) has been published. This and earlier issues may be read or downloaded at Forum News.

Annual Report 2019-20 published UKOTCF’s Annual Report 2019-20 has been published and is available here (4.2 MB). Links to all annual reports is available here.

UKOTCF Southern Ocean Working Group e-Newsletter is back After a much longer gap than anyone would have wanted, we welcome back UKOTCF Southern Ocean Working Group e-Newsletter and congratulate the new e-Newsletter editor and Secretary of SOWG, Catriona Porter. All newsletters of SOWG, the other UKOTCF newsletters (including Forum News) can be accessed here, and …

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Change of web platform The most observant of our regular visitors may have noticed slight changes of appearance in our website since 7th July. This is because we have changed platform and translated the content to a standard package, rather than the custom one used by the platform we have used for nearly 2 years. …

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Bermuda Virtual Tour added We are pleased to announce that a virtual tour for Bermuda  now joins the recently new ones for the British Antarctic Territory, the Isle of Man, Cayman Islands, South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, and the Cayman Islands and the others already available on the web-site. More follow. See the …

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Defra publishes summary of responses to its Call for Evidence on UK Government future funding for UKOT conservation In March 2019, UK Government’s Defra launched a Call for Evidence on the needs for future funding by UK Government of conservation in UKOTs. Analysis of these responses was delayed initially by overload on hard-pressed officials due …

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