Since the removal of the invasive species, a native seabird, the Manx shearwater, has returned to breeding on Rathlin Island ...

More than 400 traps were laid across the island in a £4.5m project which featured a specially-trained detection dog called ...

IF you fancy a quiet escape off the coast of the UK, then an island is about to become much easier to get to. The L-shaped ...

Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland is ferret-free after £4.5m five-year partnership led by RSPB NI ...

Sophie Clarke reports from Rathlin Island, where a landmark conservation project has seen the island declared ‘ferret-free’ ...

Rathlin Island has officially been declared ferret free — a conservation achievement that helps secure the future of Northern ...

Predatory feral ferrets have been removed from Rathlin Island for the first time, in a boost for Northern Ireland’s largest ...

A specially trained dog has used his super-smelling powers to save seabirds on Rathlin Island, just off the coast of Northern ...

A "world-first" conservation scheme has successfully eradicated feral ferrets from a Northern Irish island to protect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An seabird species that had all but vanished from local shores has returned home to Northern Ireland after decades away. For the ...

If the chance to work in one of Northern Ireland's most beautiful landscapes appeals to you, you may be in luck. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is currently looking for someone ...

An Irish American family makes an odyssey to Rathlin Island in 2018, the small Irish island their ancestors left 170 years ago. Exactly fifty years ago, in the summer of 1968, my granduncle, a ...