Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds
| | LONDON, UK, 25 October 2026 (Guardian) - Once a year, Corvo, the smallest and most northerly island of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, goes dark. Since 2019, the island’s 450 or so inhabitants have chosen to switch off the lights every autumn for five nights to tackle the disastrous effects of artificial light on Cory’s shearwaters, a seabird endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. |
What it takes to be an Antarctic postmaster
| | BRISTOL, UK, 25 October 2026 (BBC) - It is hardly a typical round for a postie, but for five months of the year George Clarke leaves behind his partner and friends in Bristol to become a postmaster at the world's most southerly post office - in Antarctica. He takes up his role as Port Lockroy postmaster from late October to March, during the southern hemisphere summer. |
Seabirds and sewage among UNESCO status challenges
| | DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, 25 October 2026 (BBC) - Sewage being discharged into the sea and under-threat seabirds are among the challenges facing the Isle of Man after a decade as a UNESCO Biosphere. The State of the Biosphere report looks back on the 10 years since the island became the world's first whole-nation Biosphere in 2016, in recognition of its thriving natural habitats from returning wildlife to new marine reserves. But it warns that while some wildlife is recovering, many species and habitats are still in long-term decline. It comes ahead of a UNESCO decision next summer on whether the island will keep its status. |
Moth survey captures 1,179 species across South Korean islands
| | LONDON, UK, 23 October 2026 (Bioengineer) - An eighteen-year survey of moth communities across thirty islands in southern South Korea has documented 1,179 species, representing 41.4 percent of all moth species known from Korea within the nineteen families investigated. The dataset, compiled from surveys conducted between 2007 and 2025, spans 332 sampling sites and covers twenty-eight islands within Dadohaehaesang and Hallyeohaesang National Parks as well as two islands outside these protected areas, including Gageodo, the southwesternmost island of the country. |
IUCN launches global strategy to tackle invasive alien species
| | YEREVAN, Armenia, 23 October 2026 (IUCN) – IUCN has launched its first global strategy to tackle invasive alien species, one of the world’s greatest drivers of biodiversity loss and species extinctions. It sets out how IUCN’s Members, Commissions and Secretariat will join forces to scale up action on biological invasions, while supporting other governments, civil society organisations, Indigenous Peoples, the private sector and researchers to work with IUCN to implement the strategy worldwide. |
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CBD |
 | | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
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JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
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UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
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ARCTIC COUNCIL |
| | UArctic Congress 26-29 May 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
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WORLD ISLANDS FAIR |
| | The world’s first international event themed around islands 5 Sept-4 Nov, 2026, Yeosu, South Korea |
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SPREP |
| | 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, 7–11 September 2026, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 14th Anatomy of Islands symposium 15-17 Oct, 2026, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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SOCIETY OF ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | 5th Island Biology conference 2-6 November, 2026, Atami City, Japan |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 27-29 Jan, 2027, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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ISISA |
| | 21st Islands of the Word Conference 6-10 June, 2027, Willemstad, Curacao |
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