The Animal series by Reaktion Books is described as the “first of its kind to explore the historical significance and impact on humans of a wide range of animals, each book in the series takes a different animal and examines its role in history around...
Applications are sought for research and project funding that will assist the Albatross and Petrel Agreement meet its objective of achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for albatrosses and petrels. Total funding of c . AUD 80 000...
T he Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena remains under serious threat from attacks on its chicks by House Mice Mus musculus on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Last year was the poorest breeding year since...
Marion Island , the larger of South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, has been overrun by introduced House Mice Mus musculus since the early 19th Century. In the absence of rats and following the successful eradication of...
Delia Davies ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the on-line and open-access journal Avian Conservation and Ecology on attacks by...
Last month ACAP Latest News reported that New Zealand invasive species expert John Parkes was to undertake a feasibility study for the eradication of House Mice Mus musculus on South Africa’s Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean during the annual...
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 on the deleterious effects of introduced...
As far back as the late 1970s marine ornithologists have travelled each year to Gough Island in the South Atlantic to conduct research on its threatened populations of albatrosses and petrels. These trips have formed part of South Africa’s annual...
It is now well known that ACAP-listed albatrosses as well as burrowing petrels face fatal attacks on their chicks by House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, including on the Critically Endangered and near island-endemic Tristan...
Ben Dilley ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) has filmed introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
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...
Richard Cuthbert ( RSPB Centre for Conservation Science , Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK ) and colleagues are publishing early this year in the Journal of Mammalogy o n aspects of the biology of the House Mice Mus musculus of...
Holly Jones ( Department of Biological Sciences , Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA) and a suite of colleagues have reviewed the conservation benefits from invasive mammal eradications on islands in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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...
An international team will be heading for sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island next month to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus by aerial poison bait drop. This follows on a successful fund-raising campaign by the Morgan Foundation ’s Million...
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 near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan...
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 the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan...
Despite a winter campaign with intermittent poor weather the Million Dollar Mouse project successfully completed the second aerial drop of poison bait on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island on 12 July – just in time before a major storm hit the island two...
