February 22nd, 2014 by States of Guernsey Environment Department
The States of Guernsey Environment Department organised a count of seabirds washed-up dead around Guernsey’s coast on Saturday 22 February 2014. By 6 p.m. 79 dead seabirds, including guillemots, razorbills, shags, puffins and a great northern diver had been collected from the Guernsey shore and brought to the central collection point at Cobo kiosk car […]
April 24th, 2013 by Alderney Wildlife Trust
On 22 April 2013 the Alderney Wildlife Trust recovered a dead Guillemot from Braye Harbour in Alderney. This is the first bird recorded in the Channel Islands that is believed to have been killed by Polyisobutylene (PIB). The discovery of this bird occurred at the same time as it was announced that over the previous […]
October 3rd, 2011 by Richard Lord
The Tree and Woodcraft Fair organised by The Guernsey Society of the Men of the Trees in celebration of the International Year of Forests 2011 took place on the hottest 1 October ever recorded in Guernsey, with the temperature exceeding 23 degrees Celsius. The Tree Fair, which ran from midday to about 4 pm was […]
July 1st, 2011 by Louise Soanes
A recent pilot project conducted by the University of Liverpool, with the support of the Alderney Wildlife Trust, The British Trust for Ornithologists and funded by the Alderney Commission for Renewable Energy (ACRE) attached GPS data loggers to 23 gannets, Morus bassanus, breeding on Les Etacs, Alderney. Within six days 17 loggers had been retrieved, […]
October 26th, 2009 by Alderney Wildlife Trust
The annual Inter-Channel Island Environment meetings are aimed at increasing communication not only within the Channel Islands but also by creating and building links with other islands and the United Kingdom. The Alderney Wildlife Trust prepared notes on the meeting of 1 and 2 October 2009 held in the Anne French Room, Island Hall, Alderney. […]
April 14th, 2009 by Alderney Wildlife Trust
The Alderney Wildlife Trust prepared notes on the MPA seminar, which Dr. Jean-Luc Solandt, Biodiversity Conservation Officer for the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), and Tom Hooper, Project Manager for Finding Santuary spoke at a seminar on Marine Protected Areas on 8 April 2009. These notes have been prepared by the Alderney Wildlife Trust. Dr Solandt’s […]