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Social Distancing: Conservation Edition

Need a little pick-me-up while social distancing? Here are our top 5 conservation-related social distancing activities. 1. Wildlife Webcam Aquariums, zoos, and wildlife reserves have webcams available online for you to stream into your home. While our favorite on Anacapa Island is currently offline, you are still able to watch some highlights! You can also […]

Written by on April 1, 2020

Overheard at National Geographic—The Zombie Mice Apocalypse

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 […]

Written by on July 15, 2019

Restoration Makes an Instant Impact on Anacapa Island

As Earth Day approaches, Island Conservation will share stories of hope and success in conservation. The first project of its kind in the United States, the restoration of Anacapa Island, helps the Scripps’s Murrelets avoid “Endangered” listing. Only 14 miles off the coast of Ventura, California, lies the three islands that form Anacapa Island. They, […]

Written by on April 22, 2019

BBC’s The Newsroom: Restore These 169 Islands to Curb the Extinction Crisis

The BBC Newsroom features Dr. Nick Holmes, lead author on a new study which identified 169 islands where the removal of invasive species can help curb the extinction crisis. Listen to the interview with Dr. Nick Holmes on BBC’s The Newsroom at 14:30. Invasive species are one of the leading causes of extinction on islands […]

Written by on April 8, 2019

Jonathan Franzen features Island Conservation in National Geographic

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 […]

Written by on June 26, 2018

Island Recovery Evident Ten Years after the Removal of Rats

Ten years after removing nonnative rats the ecosystem on Anacapa Island, including rare seabirds, is showing profound results of recovery. Ashy storm-petrels are nesting on the island for the first time ever recorded and Cassin’s auklets have expanded their territories in the absence of rats as predators. Significantly, the number of Scripps’s murrelets nests has […]

Written by on February 14, 2013