Tag: nesting seabirds

Premier: Evidence shows TNR can’t solve cat threat

Premier: Evidence shows TNR can’t solve cat threat

| 12/02/2023 | 64 Comments

(CNS): Trap-neuter-release (TNR) programmes cannot address the overpopulation of feral cat colonies across the Cayman Islands, Premier Wayne Panton said, as he defended the rollout of the Alien Species Regulations and the introduction of control programmes aimed at saving Cayman’s threatened endemic and native species.

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Brown boobies could disappear from the Brac

Brown boobies could disappear from the Brac

| 04/10/2022 | 31 Comments

(CNS): The colony of brown boobies on Cayman Brac is declining and could disappear altogether if they are not protected. These striking seabirds, which are declining in numbers worldwide, are found across the region but only on the Brac in the Cayman Islands. They are among the bird species under threat locally and included in […]

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Plan proposed to protect nesting seabirds

Plan proposed to protect nesting seabirds

| 08/07/2022 | 18 Comments

(CNS): The National Conservation Council has issued a draft Seabird Conservation Plan for public consultation to protect six of Cayman’s vanishing colonial nesting seabirds. Department of Environment (DoE) Director Gina Ebanks-Petrie has warned that some of the Cayman Islands’ most recognisable birds could be lost due to habitat loss, coastal development and invasive species unless […]

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NCC to consider protection plans for seabirds

NCC to consider protection plans for seabirds

| 24/11/2021 | 16 Comments

(CNS): When it meets today, the National Conservation Council will be considering a proposed Species Conservation Plan to protect nesting seabirds of the Cayman Islands and help stabilize and grow increasingly threatened populations. On the agenda for the NCC’s first public meeting for more than four months are a number of local environmental issues, including […]

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