Albatross chicks are falling prey to giant mice (Image: Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless)
Giant mice are eating their way through one of the world’s most important seabird colonies. An international airport is to be built on the only known home for 20 endangered insect species. Cats are harassing the Caribbean’s endangered iguanas. And it’s all happening on British territory.
The UK may have a good reputation for protecting endangered species within its own shores, but it is abjectly failing to do the same on its surviving fragments of empire in the Caribbean and the South Atlantic. That was the message from…
