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ATLANTIC TERRITORIES INVERTEBRATES

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The SRT are partnering on this ambitious project with Buglife, to support and strengthen invertebrate conservation across the UK’s Overseas Territories (UKOT).  The project will work with Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, Anguilla, and Ascension Island; collaborating with the following local organisations:

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  • Bermuda National Trust,

  • Government of Bermuda, Anguilla National Trust,

  • overnment of Anguilla,

  • Falklands Conservation,

  • Falkland Islands Government and

  • Ascension Island Government.

 

The project will help to conserve invertebrate biodiversity by collating and collecting new data on invertebrates, and identifying key sites for endemic and native species. Mapping the 'Important Invertebrate Areas' on each territory and IUCN global red listing the endemic species, will facilitate focused conservation and restoration efforts to conserve and recover their invertebrate endemics.

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There remains a wealth of knowledge to uncover about invertebrates across Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, Anguilla, and Ascension Island. With this project, the partners' aim is to collect extensive information on their ecology and distribution within these territories, and to create a database that conservation professionals can utilise.

 

Endemic invertebrate species poised to benefit from this endeavor include the Giant Pseudoscorpion Garypus titanius, Jacqui’s Pseudoscorpion Garypus ellickae, Ascension Sac Spider Hibana ascensionensis and Falkland's Camel Cricket Parudenus falklandicus.

 

A thrilling aspect of this project, is the potential that species entirely new to science might be discovered!

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