Ventotene Island

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Restoration Secures Scopoli’s Shearwater Habitat

Conservationists at PonDerat celebrate the hatching of a Scopoli’s Shearwater chick on Ventotene Island, Italy. Scopoli’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) hatchlings were historically very difficult to observe on Ventotene Island, Italy. Those chicks that survived did so in the face of invasive rats and typically nested out if sight in inaccessible cliffs. Now that PonDerat and […]

Written by on January 17, 2020