The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is seeking a new field officer to spend 13 months on Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, one of the remotest islands on Earth.
Source: Worker sought for one of world’s most isolated islands with low pay, ‘long hours’
Professor of Deep-Sea Ecology Kerry Howell and PhD candidate Amelia Bridges, from the University of Plymouth, have helped the world’s most remote inhabited island to become a sanctuary for wildlife.
Source: University helps UK Overseas Territory become sanctuary for wildlife
The UK, with the islands of Tristan Da Cunha, create the largest protected marine reserve in the Atlantic, and the fourth largest on Earth.
The waters around a remote UK Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean are to become one of the world’s largest marine sanctuaries to protect wildlife.
Source: Vast marine sanctuary created to protect wildlife around remote Atlantic islands
A team of conservationists who were trying to save endangered seabirds from giant mice on one of the world’s most remote islands have been rescued by the UK military after becoming stranded due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: They tried to save seabirds from giant mice on a remote island, but Covid-19 left them stranded
In the remote waters of the South Atlantic Ocean lies the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, some 2,400 kilometres west of South Africa. A chain of four islands, Tristan da Cunha covers a small land area but it has an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) close to three times the size of the United Kingdom: 754,000 square kilometres.
Source: The Most Remote Islands in the Atlantic Ocean Need Protection
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