Our lastest newsletter for Decemeber 2011. It contains the following:
The Darwin Project acquires its name from Charles Darwin, a gentleman who lived in the 1800's and dedicated his life to world conservation, travelling to even the remotest parts of the earth (he even came to St Helena in 1836) to study the amazing world of wild flora and fauna.....
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The St Helena Wirebird has been the subject of conservation attention for several decades now, but most of it has been concerned with understanding the feeding and nesting requirements and monitoring the population size and how this is changing. The St Helena National Trust has succeeded in attracting funds this year to move from observation...
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Saint Helena's geographic position has always been the most important factor in its development as an outpost of human occupation. From its discovery by Joao da Nova Castella in May 1502 until its decline after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, its remote location put it in one of the most economically important shipping channels in the world...
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