A week carrying out landbird surveys as part of pre rodent eradication monitoring. This is the 5th survey and we visited 96 sites for 10 minute bird counts, twice each […]
10 people along for this week to assist with conservation on the island. Some very productive work removing Sea Spurge form the beaches, including an area that has not yet […]
In July the Lord Howe Island Museum and Australian Museum as part of Conservation Volunteers program ran a Beetle Week. Dr Chris Reid from A. M. and I led the […]
Thirteen students from Victoria University Wellington New Zealand came to the island for a week to go out into the field and observe, measure and test the various Island Biology […]
This was the 84th Friends of Lord Howe Island weeding trip. Twenty-two People came along, and hours was contributed to conservation on the island. A variety of weed species were […]
In May the team from ABC Gardening show visited the Island filming segments for screenng tbis year. The three stories filmed were – an overview of the Island and its […]
This April 2018 shearwater research fortnight was a busy one – we processed about 180 birds – either lavarging to monitor plastic, or necropsy dead ones to see what plastic […]
March is an excellent time for birds on the island – most of our summer seabirds are still on the island, and the Providence petrels have just returned for winter […]
In conjunction with the National Marine Science Institute at Coffs Harbour we ran the first Sea Slug census for Lord Howe Island. Over the weekend locals and visitors took part […]
In February researchers from WA University, led by Jonathan Mitchell, were on the Island to carry out the first detailed study of the Galapagos whaler shark here. This is the […]