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Conservation Problems on Tristan da Cunha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

J. H. Flint
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The author spent two years, 1963–65, as schoolmaster on Tristan da Cunha, during which he spent four weeks on Nightingale Island. On the main island he found that bird stocks were being depleted and the islanders taking too many eggs and young; on Nightingale, however, where there are over two million pairs of great shearwaters, the harvest of these birds could be greater. Inaccessible Island, which like Nightingale, is without cats, dogs or rats, should be declared a wildlife sanctuary.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , April 1967 , pp. 28 - 32
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1967

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