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Island Conservation
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 […]
Largest Conservation Project Ever in French Polynesia Hits Historic Milestone Resources: Français, Photographs, Supplemental Video / B-roll, Interviews with operation leaders Acteon & Gambier Archipelagos, French Polynesia, July 29, 2015 BirdLife International, with Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie (SOP Manu – BirdLife Partner in French Polynesia) and Island Conservation, has just completed an ambitious conservation operation on six […]
Une occasion exceptionnelle pour des oiseaux parmi les plus rares au monde! Le plus ambitieux projet de conservation jamais tenté en Polynésie française constitue une étape historique Possibilité d’obtenir des photographies, des videos, et des interview des responsables du projet sur demande. BirdLife International, aidé par la Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie (SOP Manu – Partenaire […]
By: Heath Packard As I write this introduction, our field teams are making their way back to their home offices, phones, emails, and internet. We will be debriefing them soon and hope that the final reports allow us all to announce the operation a success…but only time will tell. In the meantime, here’s Island Conservation Project […]
The epic saga to protect one of the world’s rarest and most endangered birds, the Polynesian Ground-dove (Alopecoenas erythropterus), continues with remarkable progress! Dozens of scientist, NGO, donor, and corporate collaborators hailing from England, French Polynesia, New Zealand, California, Wisconsin, and elsewhere are responsible for this years-in-the-making conservation melodrama! The setting is six islands in […]
Have you ever actually met an Angry Bird? I have, but I’m not sure I knew it at the time. The year was 2007, and I was undertaking field work on Vahanga Atoll in French Polynesia. This is where I met one of the angriest birds in the world, the only Polynesian Ground-dove (Alopecoenas […]
The Acteon and Gambier Archipelagos are located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, more than 1,500 km (~932 miles) from Tahiti. French Polynesia comprises 125 islands and atolls spread over 5,030,000 square kilometers of Pacific Ocean. These vast archipelagos have among the highest numbers of endemic birds for tropical Pacific islands, exceeded only by the proportion that […]