Tristan scores OTEP funding Hat trick
Success for all three bids submitted by Tristan last December for support from the Overseas Territories Environment Programme. The Programme, jointly funded by the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development, has provided valuable assistance to previous conservation projects implemented on Tristan, Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough Islands. The current awards will provide some £220,000 of support funds during the period 2005/07 to establish a Conservation Centre on Tristan, to finance a study on eradicating rats and mice on Gough & Tristan, and to continue efforts designed to prevent an invasive species of plant from establishing a habitat on Gough.
Report from Tristan Administrator Mike Hentley received 6/4/05