Yawning for the camera. A Tristan Albatross on Gough Island, photograph by Tom McSherry
To date, the Gough Island Restoration Programme (GIRP) has completed the first bait drop over the island to ...
Last week the Gough Island Restoration Programme got underway to rid the island of its introduced House Mice Mus musculus that attack and kill chicks of the Critically Endangered and near-endemic Tristan ...
Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena breeding on World Heritage Gough Island in the South Atlantic are at great risk of extinction due in part to introduced House Mice Mus musculus ...
... is set to take place in 2019 (click here).
Gough’s oversized “killer” mice have become well known for their attacks on seabird chicks on the island, leading most notably to unsustainably low breeding ...
At its 40th Session held in Istanbul, Turkey this month the Committee of the World Heritage Convention considered the plight of Gough Island (part of a World Heritage Site) and its seabirds, including ...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News over the last five years will be well aware of the devastation that long-introduced House Mice Mus musculus are causing to the birds of Gough Island, including to its ...
Ben Dilley (Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the journal Antarctic Science ...
Richard Cuthbert (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) and colleagues have published in the journal Antarctic Science of yet more harm being caused by predatory House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island ...
Richard Cuthbert (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK) and colleagues have written in the journal Bird Conservation International on the plight of a suite of burrowing petrels on Gough Island ...
Gough Island lies approximately 400 km south-east of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean and is part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. ...
Ross Wanless (Seabird Division, BirdLife South Africa) and colleagues have outlined the plight of yet another seabird species preyed upon by "killermice" Mus musculus on UK's Gough Island in the South Atlantic. ...
The UK Environment Minister Richard Benyon announced funding of UK£250 000 towards a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) project to eradicate the introduced "killer" House Mice Mus musculus ...
Richard Cuthbert of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and colleagues report this month in the journal Wildlife Research on the susceptibility to poison bait of the "killermice" of Gough Island, ...
It is now surely well-known that the introduced House Mice of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are wreaking havoc amongst its birds up to the size of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan ...
... the continued poor breeding success is due to depredation by Gough's "killermice" (the House Mouse Mus musculus). All the more important then that planning has now commenced for their eradication (click ...
It is now well known that the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic kill large numbers of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year, directly leading ...
Free from mice attacks: a healthy 2021/22 Tristan Albatross chick on Gough Island; photograph by Roel Daling, Gough Island Restoration Project
In the austral winter of 2021, the Gough Island Restoration ...
The mouse captured on camera on Gough Island in December 2021; photograph by the Gough Island Restoration Programme
The Gough Island Restoration Programme (GIRP) aimed to eradicate introduced House ...
... will signal the end of the “killer” mice and allow the island’s albatrosses and petrels to breed unhindered for the first time in decades. In fact, there Already early signs of success with no losses of ...
End in sight? Andrea Angel holds a Tristan Albatross close to death after being attacked by mice on Gough Island, photograph by Ross Wanless
The latest news from the Gough Island Restoration Project ...
