Times of the Islands Spring 2022

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SIMON BUSUTTIL This image demonstrates that native plants re-grow vigorously where Australian pine has been removed at Half Moon Bay. ary principle should be applied, and areas of Australian Pine quickly removed from Piping Plover roost sites, all of which have been identified. At Half Moon Bay, where National Trust volunteers are removing this tree, the plovers were clearly feeding adjacent to areas which had been cleared but not areas backed by tall trees. This is active conservation management and it seems likely that to counter the threats from invasive alien species and to balance the impacts of development, more of these initiatives will need to be developed and implemented in the future if we are to keep our piping plovers, flocks of migrant waders and cays of breeding seabirds. There is already a largely unsung story to be told about a world-leading conservation success in Turks & Caicos. Over the past decade or so, over $2.7 million has been invested in the conservation of the Turks & Caicos Rock Iguana, resulting in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature uplifting the conservation status of the species from Critically Endangered (one step short of extinction in the wild) to Endangered. To date, this is the only one of the 44 species of iguana worldwide which has had a genuine positive change in fortune. Part of this success story is on Pine Cay, where the cats introduced in the mid 1970s have now been successfully removed. Pine Cay is thus one of a small but growing number of islands worldwide (currently fewer than 100) which has successfully removed feral cats. Turks & Caicos has a proven track record of conservation success. We need to build on this and identify what are the further challenges we need to tackle. a Simon Busuttil is Biosecurity Advisor for The Iguana Islands Partnership.The partnership is a collaboration between Turks & Caicos National Trust, Turks & Caicos Government, private island managers, and international wildlife conservation organisations—The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, San Diego Zoo, and Wildlife Management International Ltd. The partnership, with funding from the Darwin Initiative, is working to ensure Turks & Caicos’ iguana islands remain “Beautiful by Nature.” 44 www.timespub.tc
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