Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will know of the plans to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus next year on New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island , home of seven species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Antipodes Island, with...
All things must pass: the 54-month streak comes to an end In the 10 years since 2006 when the Agreement’s website went live, its news section, known as ACAP Latest News , has published a total of 2376 short articles. From June 2011 daily news items...
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the parlous state of Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic whose downy chicks are attacked and killed by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every year, leading to a low...
Tony Martin’s new book (authored along with “Team Rat”) tells the stirring story of ridding South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* of introduced rodents by aerial bombardment of a thousand square kilometres with 12 500 bags of poison bait from three...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) announced last week that the long-awaited attempt to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic is set to take place in 2019 ( click here )....
The Tenth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee ( AC10 ) was held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 11 to 15 September 2017. The report of the meeting is now available online here . Meeting documents and information papers considered at the meeting are...
ACAP Latest News has reported before that introduced House Mice Mus musculus have taken to attacking breeding Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses on USA’s Midway Atoll ( click here ). Mice are the sole rodent and...
Over the last few decades efforts, mostly successful, have been made to eradicate introduced predatory mammals on many of the Southern Ocean’s sub-Antarctic islands, notably New Zealand’s Campbell Island and Australia’s Macquarie Island among others....
Christopher Jones ( FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the journal Polar Biology on introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking adults of two species of threatened...
Guy Preston ( Department of Environmental Affairs , Cape Town, South Africa) and (many!) colleagues have published in the proceedings of an international island invasives conference held in 2017 in Dundee, Scotland on South Africa’s intention to rid...
A team of 50 authors from 40 institutions led by Nick Holmes ( Island Conservation , Santa Cruz, California, USA) has published open access in the online journal PLOS ONE on the results of analysing a data set of 1279 islands worldwide whose Endangered...
The first World Albatross Day is set to be celebrated on 19 June next year. Following discussion, and consideration of the main threats facing albatrosses identified in a recent review in the journal Biological Conservation, the theme of eradicating...
