Bob Headland ( Scott Polar Research Institute , University of Cambridge, UK), writing in the journal Polar Record , has produced a descriptive historical account of the introduced mammals of southern high latitudes. The publication has a particular...
The papers and abstracts published in this proceedings volume are the outcome of an international conference on Island Invasives: Eradication and Management held at Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland , New Zealand from 8 to 12 February 2010. The...
The Fifth Issue (December 2011) of the Henderson Island News brings the welcome information that the aerial bait drop in August last year to eradicate Polynesian Rats or Kiore Rattus exulans by the Henderson Island Restoration Project looks like it...
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 mice on Gough Island at a meeting of the UK...
Over 15-16 March BirdLife South Africa and the University of Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute hosted a conference " Frontiers in South African Ornithology " in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Four presentations were given that will be of interest...
The first Southern Ocean island from which the alien House Mouse Mus musculus has been eradicated was 700-ha Enderby Island in New Zealand's Auckland Island group. This 1993 effort was primarily directed at European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus . A...
Over the period 20-26 March 2012 Katrine Herian ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Project Officer working with the Tristan Conservation Department) and Lourens Malan visited Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha Group, travelling from...
The near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island suffers annually from fatal attacks on its chicks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus. Click here to watch a graphic video of one such night-time attack...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to raise sufficient non-governmental funds to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand's Antipodes Island has now passed one-third of its target, with NZ$ 352 658 raised by 11 May (click here)....
Ross Wanless ( Seabird Division, BirdLife South Africa ) and colleagues have outlined the plight of yet another seabird species preyed upon by "killer mice" Mus musculus on UK's Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Writing on-line in the journal Animal...
The Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International publishes an annual newsletter entitled SeaChange that includes short articles on its activities in helping save seabirds around the World. The latest 12-page issue of SeaChange ( Number 8 , for...
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic commences today with the brand-new Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on its maiden voyage to the island at 14h00...
It is now well-known that downy chicks of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses that breed on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are facing nightly onslaughts in winter months from "killer" House Mice that have been...
On 1 January 2012 Gough Island field researchers Karen Bourgeois and Sylvain Dromzée came across a Tristan Albatross Dio medea dabbenena chick in the long-term study colony in Gonydale that was behaving unusually. From their report it was stated to be...
"Islands are the epicenter of the current global extinction crisis and invasive vertebrates are the leading cause of extinction on islands. Removing invasive vertebrates from islands is a well-established tool to protect and restore island ecosystems...
A personal challenge in 2012 has been to post a daily news item to ACAP Latest News . This story is the 365th of the year so the self-imposed daily streak* has been achieved. Now is a good time then to look back at the highlights of a years' worth of...
A pelagic longliner operating in international waters in the south-west Atlantic pulled aboard a drowned albatross wearing a colour band on 4 October 2011 at 33.24S, 47.09W. Because the colour band was handed in to Proyecto Albatros y Petreles in...
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. Within its rugged 65 km 2 , this nature reserve,...
A complete-island count of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was completed during February/March 2013 on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic. As is now well known...
Chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic have been subjected to attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every winter since at least 2000 when the first observations of wounded...
