Mike Pienkowski

SOWG e-Newsletter is back

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

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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Defra publishes summary of responses to its Call for Evidence on UK Government future funding for UKOT conservation

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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New UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin 25 (Review of 2019) & 26 (Coral disease in TCI)

New UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin 25 (Review of 2019) & 26 (Coral disease in TCI) The new issues of the eBulletin of UKOTCF’s Wider Caribbean Working Group are now available here. Number 25 is a Review of 2019 and number 26 is on the devastating Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in TCI. Share …

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Forum News 51 published

Forum News 51 published Forum News 51 (November 2019) has been published. This and earlier issues may be read or downloaded at Forum News. Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn

BAT Virtual Tour added

BAT Virtual Tour added We are pleased to announce that a virtual tours for the British Antarctic Territory now joins the recently new ones for 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 index …

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UKOT & CD Governments sign agreement on environmental co-operation.

UKOT & CD Governments sign agreement on environmental co-operation. The photograph (courtesy of Lian Camilleri, HM Government of Gibraltar) shows the territories present and initially signing. From left: Assistant Minister (Deputy Gregory Guida) & Minister (Deputy John Young) Jersey, Minister Montserrat (Hon. Claude Hogan), President States of Alderney (Mr William Tate), Representative Tristan da Cunha …

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Experimental reintroduction of Montserrat’s Critically Endangered mountain chicken frog

Experimental reintroduction of Montserrat’s Critically Endangered mountain chicken frog Mountain Chicken frog in Centre Hills of Montserrat, before arrival of chytrid. © Dr Mike Pienkowski One of the sites in the Adopt a Home for Wildlife initiative of UKOTCF & Montserrat National Trust is being used also as an experimental location for reintroduction of the …

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