Nature's Future

The Gough Island Project is a Nature's Future project to save the 10 million birds native to Gough Island by killing the one to three million invasive mice on Gough Island. These mice are eating more than one million petrel, shearwater and albatross chicks on Gough Island every year. As Gough Island is the largest natural bird sanctuary in the world this is an environmental crisis of the first order.

Gough Island is the least disturbed major cool-temperate island ecosystem in the South Atlantic Ocean, and one of the most important sea-bird colonies in the world. There are more than 30 species of birds on Gough Island, including 2 unique species of flightless birds, for a total estimated bird population of 10 million birds. The two endemic land birds are the Gough moorhen and the Gough finch.

The $2 million dollars required for this project covers the cost of leasing a ship and crew, numerous supplies, the purchase of a special poison that only the mice will eat and the rental of a helicopter and flight crew to distribute the poison over the mice nesting areas on Gough Island.