Mice have flourished on Gough Island since they were inadvertently introduced by sailors in the 19th century, and have evolved to become half as large again as average house mice.

The mice are also affecting Gough Island’s other Critically Endangered endemic species, Gough Bunting Rowettia goughensis. A recent survey of the bunting’s population revealed that the ...

“Monster mice” are eating much larger albatross chicks alive, threatening rare bird species on a remote South Atlantic island seen as the world’s most important seabird colony.

There are plans to eradicate mice on the islands which are eating seabird chicks, to save the Tristan albatross and Gough bunting from extinction ; Henderson Island in the Pacific, ...

Surveys of Gough Bunting in 2007 suggest that the population is 400-500 pairs. The United Kingdom Overseas Territory (UKOT) Conservation Forum research findings indicate that the mice are responsible ...

A giant mouse feeds on a dead seabird chick. Ross Wanless and Andrea Angel. Nestled in a remote corner of the South Atlantic, the nearly uninhabited volcanic Gough Island is a nature geek's dream ...

Thomas Walter Gough Jr., a retired printing salesman and lacrosse coach, died April 13 of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 85. The son of a state worker and a homemaker, Thomas ...

4. Notes with concern the threats to the property by invasive species and the decline in conservation status of Northern Rockhopper Penguin, Tristan Albatross and Gough Bunting; 5. Requests the State ...

A change of guard is under way on an island surrounded by thousands of kilometres of ocean in all directions, where South Africa has a weather base. The country has been operating the weather station ...

Emily Beament The curlew and Dartford warbler could be heading towards extinction, the RSPB warned yesterday, following a revision of the global… ...

A stand-off over who should pay for the bunting for Bridgnorth Carnival has been eased, with a pledge by the town council to look at how it can help ensure that the carnival continues into the future.

Gough Island, which is part of ... There are plans to eradicate mice on the islands which are eating seabird chicks, to save the Tristan albatross and Gough bunting from extinction .