{"id":221691,"date":"2026-01-01T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:03:14","slug":"alderney-has-landmark-year-for-nature-and-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221691\/","title":{"rendered":"Alderney ‘has landmark year’ for nature and wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservationists in Alderney have described 2025 as a landmark year for wildlife in 2025, with major progress for wildlife, habitats and community action across the island and clear signs that nature recovery is under way.<\/p>\n

The Alderney Wildlife Trust<\/a> (AWT) said one of the highlights had been the recovery of some seabird populations.<\/p>\n

Staff said they had found the island’s northern gannet populations had increased by 11% since 2023, after decreases caused by avian flu. Puffin breeding populations on Burhou also remained stable, they added.<\/p>\n

The AWT said it also saw major progress with community participation, with more than 10,000 visitors and residents getting involved with the island’s nature.<\/p>\n

The trust is hoping to launch its Once and Future Woodland project in the new year, which it hopes will restore Alderney’s historic woodland. <\/p>\n

Trust CEO Roland Gauvin said: “We were surprised at how well a lot of the different species on the island have been coping this year.”<\/p>\n

However, he added he expected rises in sea temperatures could increase new and invasive species coming to the island, which was something the trust wanted to look at in the long-term.<\/p>\n

Mr Gauvin said: “We have been out speaking to the community about what they want to see and what they value.<\/p>\n

“And that also gives us a list of habitats and species that we can really focus on the long-term future of our island.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservationists in Alderney have described 2025 as a landmark year for wildlife in 2025, with major progress for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-221691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}