Integrating nesting habitat restoration with at-sea individual-based biomonitoring of the endangered seabird Pterodroma cahow endemic to Bermuda
A multi-year collaboration has been launched!! Researchers from MARE-Ispa and cE3c-FCUL (Portugal) are working with the DENR (Government of Bermuda) and the Nonsuch Expedition Team to use GPS tags to track a cross-section of Cahows on their foraging journeys.
The project is funded by the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund and ECC Canada
News and Events:
August-September 2023
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATIONS in Lund (Sweden) for the 14th EOU and in Varese (Italy) to the XXI CIO. meeting. In both occasions Letizia Campioni presented the final unpublished results of a toxicological study investigating Bermuda petrel's exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants.
July 2023
SCIENZA IN RETE published an article interviewving Letizia Campioni and other reserachers who were involved in a global study on marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic seabirds including the Bermdua petrel.
June 2022
RADAR MAGAZINE publishes an article interviewing Letizia Campioni who leads the Bermuda Biomonitoring Project since 2019.
April 2022
In occasion of the "EARTH DAY" the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples) invited Letizia Campioni to talk about the research and conservation of the Bermuda Petrel
January 2020
-Di Donato primary school (Rome, Italy)-
We started a project with 9 years old students (IV classes):
"INTEGRANDO IL RIPRISTINO DELL'HABITAT DI NIDIFICAZIONE CON IL BIOMONITORAGGIO INDIVIDUALE IN MARE DI UNA SPECIE IN ESTINZIONE, IL PETRELLO DELLE BERMUDA (PTERODROMA CAHOW)"
Training material: Discovering the Bermuda Petrel one of the most endangered seabird in the world
26-29 September 2019
- XX CIO conference (Napoli, Italy) -
26-30 August 2019
- European Ornithologists'Union Conference 2019 Cluj-Napoca (Romania) -
https://www.speciesconservation.org/case-studies-projects/bermuda-petrel/20049
CROWDFUNDING IDEAS: Our Project Logo has been printed as STICKER which will be used to promote our project and can be also requested in exchange of a free donation (of minimum 1 Euro).
We are also have unisex black T-SHIRT (size: S, M, L, XL, XXL) with a serigraphic print of our Project LOGO, you can have it for 12 Euros (shipping fee not included).
Photos depicting fieldwork moments at Nonsuch Island
