Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly nests of Manx shearwater ("Puffinus puffinus"). Permission is needed from Trinity House to land on the island and only two botanists are known to have visited. The first, J. E. Lousley, in 1957, only recorded the invasive Hottentot fig ("Carpobrotus edulis"). Thirty years later, in 1987, Rosemary Parslow found much of the ground between the buildings and the cliff edge was covered in a carpet of purple dewplant ("Disphyma crassifolium") and Hottentot fig. She also recorded a small number of the expected coastal species. They were sea spleenwort ("Asplenium marinum"), bird's–foot trefoil ("Lotus corniculatus"), spear–leaved orache ("Atriplex prostrata"), sea beet
Muttonbirding on 36 islands, known as the Titi or Muttonbird Islands, around Rakiura (Stewart Island), is managed entirely by Rakiura Māori. There is some evidence that this harvest has been occurring since at least the 17th century. Muttonbird may refer to various seabirds, particularly petrels in the genus "Puffinus", called shearwaters, where the young birds are harvested for food and oil by being extracted by hand from the nesting burrows before they fledge. Some species are: Muttonbirding Muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of the chicks of petrels, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers by recreational or commercial hunters. Such