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Looe Island is a marine nature reserve and the waters around it are teeming with life. It provides a quiet haven for wildlife, with a variety of habitats including woodland, maritime grassland, sand, shingle and rocky reef.

Looe Island is the second largest breeding colony in Cornwall of great black-backed gulls nests. This species is kleptoparasitic, meaning it will rob other sea birds of their catch as a means of obtaining food.

Abigail Crosby is a Marine Education Officer for the Cornwall Wildlife Trust and recently spent 2 weeks on the island. Her main role is to help set up educational activities particularly in the summer.听

The rat population is a constant threat to the nesting sea birds on the Island, predating on eggs and young. If the 19th century author Wilkie Collins is to be believed, rats were caught on the Island, 'smothered in onion' and 'eaten with vindictive relish by the people of Looe'.