At the time of his death, Minnie had been in South Africa to promote The Lost Boys of Bird Island. Its publisher, Tafelberg, said Minnie saw the book as "only the beginning of the process to have ...

It opened in 1993 as a municipal facility in response to calls from the Wild Bird Society of Japan to conserve the island’s nature-rich environment and high-density bird population. The center ...

Bird Island is one of the most closely monitored ... of high numbers of seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere, the south of Africa and around the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and throughout South ...