Seabird Scientist/Coastal Reserves Manager/Island Councillor on Ascension Island. Views my own. 🏴🇦🇨
Joined August 2013
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17 Jun 2024
20 years ago there was no frigatebirds nesting on mainland Ascension, this was today.
The feral cat eradication on Ascension is a huge conservation success and this is the evidence! #Seabirds
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Laura Shearer retweeted
26 Mar 2025
Tracking Ascension Island’s seabirds across borders:
Learn how our @UKBCFs DarwinPlus project will help us understand how seabirds & fisheries overlap in the High Seas 🌊
Led by @AIGConservation @BirdLife_News, @GlobalFishWatch, @The_MMO, @CefasGovUK
seabirdtracking.org/tracking…
ALT photo of a sooty tern at colony on Ascension
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In Ascension Island en route to the Falklands; a great opportunity for our visiting members of @HouseofCommons to meet with Councillors Alan Nicholls and Laura Shearer from the Ascension Island Council. Also to meet with the Administrator and his deputy! #Falklands 🇫🇰🇦🇨🇬🇧
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Laura Shearer retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Huge progress in the last few weeks for the @UKBCFs DPL00106 project. The first nesting chambers for storm petrels have been built with support from @SkokholmIsland wardens #seabirds #conservation
ALT Constructing storm petrel nesting chambers
ALT First storm petrel nesting chamber made
ALT Storm petrel nesting chambers made with tunnel and removable roof
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4 Jan 2025
Been catching up with some #SCUBA diving over the last few weeks during the holiday break. Here's some pics taken by my dive buddy Tom Barnes at Comfortless Cove, Ascension Island 🇦🇨
ALT SCUBA diving at Ascension Island with lots of black triggerfish, out most abundant inshore species
ALT Common octopus guarding it's hole, Ascension Island
ALT Marmalade fish, endemic to Ascension and St Helena
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Laura Shearer retweeted
30 Dec 2024
At the end of 2024 we want to recognise & celebrate the achievements of UK Overseas Territories for all the work they’ve done this year to enhance the protection and sustainable management of their precious marine environments.
Thank you to our followers for all your support!
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Laura Shearer retweeted
16 Dec 2024
The 🇬🇧 Overseas Territory of St Helena Ascension & Tristan da Cunha 🇸🇭 is recruiting for a Locum Attorney General. Applications for this incredible opportunity based on #StHelena are due by 19 December;
sthelenapublicservicejobs.sh…
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Laura Shearer retweeted
11 Dec 2024
Happy International Mountain Day!
The conservation team have started to monitor the Fairy Tern nests along the Green Mountain road. Various Eucalyptus trees have been marked with tree tags to help the team identify nesting areas.
Photos: AIG Conservation
#smallislandBIGVISION
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Laura Shearer retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Conservation work on Ascension requires involvement from the local community. Volunteers participate in beach cleans, removing invasive species, planting trees, installing signage and even tagging sharks. We are incredibly grateful for the support! #InternationalVolunteerDay
ALT Volunteers clean Shelly Beach at Mars Bay Nature Reserve
ALT Volunteers cleared invasive species in Green Mountain National Park
ALT Volunteers plant trees on Green Mountain National Park
ALT RAF volunteers install new information signage at the unique anchialine pools of Mars Bay Nature Reserve
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Laura Shearer retweeted
3 Dec 2024
SHE DID IT AGAIN!
Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.
At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male.
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Laura Shearer retweeted
2 Dec 2024
THE JAMESTOWN AIRSHOW
Set out to photograph the cruise ship on Saturday, but seduced into chasing the soaring trophy birds instead. Great aerial show going on above the town.
#redbilledtropicbird #trophybird #sthelena
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1 Dec 2024
Turtle work begins tomorrow, barely over the hump of seabird census... no rest for the wicked! We've got plenty mating around the island and a fair few already nesting so hoping for another productive season 🤞😁
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1 Dec 2024
Red-billed tropicbird patiently incubating it's egg, ready to hatch any day now! #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Laura Shearer retweeted
22 Nov 2024
Happy #BRUVSFriday! 🌊 Check out the stunning black triggerfish (Melichthys niger) captured in Ascension (@ascension_gov) using BRUVS. Dive into more about this at [lnkd.in/eAVpscNZ]. #BlueBelt #GOWAN
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Laura Shearer retweeted
23 Nov 2024
We are proud to partner with @GlobalFishWatch to understand the behaviour of vessels outside of the @AscensionMPA and how they interact with our #seabirds. This is part of the @UKBCFs Protecting Seabirds Across Borders project. Learn more about their work 👇
22 Nov 2024
🌊 Just a decade ago, building an accurate picture of human activity at sea was impossible.
📡 Thanks to advances in #AI and satellite technology, #GlobalFishingWatch is making it a reality. Watch how we are revolutionizing ocean monitoring and analysis.
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Laura Shearer retweeted
27 Oct 2024
We are thrilled to be part of this amazing @UKBCFs DPLUS project in partnership with @AIGConservation to boost seabird conservation
27 Oct 2024
We have been busy counting nesting seabirds on offshore Boatswainbird Island with the assistance of @seabird_watch
This is part of @UKBCFs DarwinPLUS Remote camera monitoring of marine predators in UK Overseas Territories, using UAVs to understand Ascensions seabird population
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Laura Shearer retweeted
27 Oct 2024
We have been busy counting nesting seabirds on offshore Boatswainbird Island with the assistance of @seabird_watch
This is part of @UKBCFs DarwinPLUS Remote camera monitoring of marine predators in UK Overseas Territories, using UAVs to understand Ascensions seabird population
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Laura Shearer retweeted
Ever wondered how we can use #stableIsotopeAnalysis to learn about birds' feeding habitats & consistency in behaviours?
✨New blog post ✨explains how I'm using this technique to gain greater insight into the lives of #FalklandsShags
dannithompsonphotography.com…
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Laura Shearer retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Great to meet Andy Schofield from @Natures_Voice during his visit to Ascension. @Natures_Voice's support for @AIGConservation efforts is vital to protect the island’s remarkable seabird colonies.
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Laura Shearer retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Data from the @UKBCFs DPLUS175 Protecting Seabirds Across Borders has been added to the @BirdLifeMarine seabird tracking database seabirdtracking.org/
Check out how far Ascension's frigatebirds have travelled 👇
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