The New Island Conservation Trust is an active organisation that owns and manages New Island. Its mission is to conserve the island in perpetuity and has undertaken work on removing sheep and cattle, allowing a recovery of the vegetation. It has also developed controlled ecotourism, and is a favoured stop for Antarctic cruise ships. Recently, detailed research has been carried out on introduced rodents, satellite-tracking of penguins, skua migration, prion ecology and behaviour and the population dynamics of albatrosses.