Assessment And Conservation Actions For Cayman Islands' Seabirds

Last month, the Cayman Islands' Department of Environment (DoE) began work on the Sister Islands as part of an exciting new project, which aims to provide comprehensive data on regionally and globally important seabird populations in the Cayman Islands. This project is primarily funded by the Darwin Initiative, a UK Government grant scheme aimed at helping to protect biodiversity and the natural environment within the UK Overseas Territories.

Over the next two years, DoE will be working in partnership with the National Trust of the Cayman Islands, and seabird experts from the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter, UK, to collect urgently needed information on the movements, ecology and status of resident seabird populations. It is hoped that the knowledge gained through this work will contribute to conservation management around the Cayman Islands. The project will focus largely on red-footed boobies (Sula sula) on Little Cayman and brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) on