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Amazing 2012 breeding season for Tahiti Monarch

The Critically Endangered Tahiti Monarch has enjoyed its most successful breeding season since Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie began an intensive programme of nest protection in 1998.

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Biodiversity survey of paradise in the South Pacific

Last June, a team of scientists and technicians joined the Ornithological Society of Polynesia-Manu (SOP-Manu – BirdLife in French Polynesia) to survey the flora and fauna of remote atolls in the south-east Tuamotu Archipelago.

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Titi Forever: Research supports conservation of Tuamotu Sandpiper

Most of the world’s sandpiper species migrate thousands of kilometers between arctic breeding grounds and subtropical wintering grounds, but in the not-too distant evolutionary past, one group gave up this habit and went native in French Polynesia…

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SOP saving stranded seabirds

The Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie (SOP MANU – BirdLife in French Polynesia) has started a rescue program for grounded petrels and shearwaters attracted by lights on Tahiti. Following awareness raising activities by SOP MANU, the number of grounded Near Threatened Tahiti Petrel has risen from 10 to over 100 birds per annum. “This is thought to be the tip off the ice-berg, with the number of seabirds being attracted to bright lights at night is likely to be much higher”, said Lucie Faulquier from SOP MANU.

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