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 in the South Atlantic thought due to the...
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 – this time reporting attacks on a further...
Qual Albatroz is a twice-monthly comic strip about a somewhat unusual colony of albatrosses lost somewhere in the south Pacific. The cartoons are drawn by Marc Parchow Figueiredo – who has never seen an albatross although he much wishes to do so. Marc...
Richard Cuthbert ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , UK) and colleagues, writing in the journal Antarctic Science , report on breeding success and population trends of four ACAP-listed species breeding on Gough Island in the South Atlantic....
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic starts tomorrow with the Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on Thursday the 5th. Gough forms part of the United...
Another essential step has been taken in the progress towards eradication of the alien House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . This morning a Bell 212 helicopter...
As in previous years two complete-island censuses have been undertaken this year of breeding Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Site Gough Island. This Critically Endangered albatross is threatened with extinction by predatory...
In October 1982 I set up a small study of ACAP-listed Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on Gough Island in the South Atlantic during the annual relief of the South African weather station. With colleagues at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick...
The fatal attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus on chicks of near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Gough Island must surely now be well known ( click here ). Each year researchers on the...
Planning for the eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island is now underway with the Department of Conservation ( DOC ) recently appointing a Project Manager to run the exercise ( click here ). It is aimed to...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is perhaps the most threatened species listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement, facing as it does the twin threats of chick predation by mice ashore and longlining mortality at sea...
