of the island’s seabirds by aerial bait drop from helicopters in 2019 . As regularly reported in ACAP Latest News the Gough mice are leading the ACAP-listed and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena to extinction by killing downy...
The Operations Advisor for the Gough Island Restoration Programme , New Zealander Keith Springer, returned from a visit to Gough Island earlier this month when ACAP Latest News met up with him in a Cape Town Korean restaurant. Keith has reported on his...
Stephanie Borrelle (I nstitute for Applied Ecology New Zealand , Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues has published in the journal Oryx on how well seabirds recover after their islands are freed of invasive...
Peter Garden , an island eradication helicopter pilot, of Wanaka on New Zealand’s South Island has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s honours list for “services to aviation and conservation”. “Regarded as one of...
The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is working towards the eradication of “killer” House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island, where they have been reducing breeding success of near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan...
A Senior Research Assistant and two Research Assistants are once again required for island restoration work on Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, a World Heritage Site. Fieldwork will include demographic monitoring of the Critically Endangered...
Michael Brooke ( Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge , UK) and colleagues have published in the journal Animal Conservation on the fortunes of 181 island seabird populations of 69 species following successful eradication of invasive mammals....
Tim Doherty ( Centre for Integrative Ecology , Deakin University, Geelong, Australia;) and colleagues published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America on a global analysis of the effects of...
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 )....
I read Richard Cuthbert’s recently published book on the globally Endangered Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni by head torch over two nights in field huts on New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island while tramping the Aotea Track last month after...
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 held a one-day workshop on gadfly petrels of the genera Pterodroma and Pseudobulweria and other small petrels on 10 September in Wellington, New Zealand, prior to the 10th Meeting of its Advisory Committee ( AC10 ). The overall objective of the...
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....
The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is a globally Critical Endangered species that is at risk of extinction due to the combined effects of longline mortality and chick mortality leading to low breeding success on Gough Island , its main breeding...
The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is once again advertising three field assistant positions to work on World Heritage Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months over 2018/19, with a training period prior to...
Gough Island and its territorial waters in the South Atlantic, a UK Overseas Territory, is a Tristan da Cunha nature reserve, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance, an Important Bird & Biodiversity Area...
French National Plans of Action for biodiversity are operational documents aimed at the conservation of threatened species within France and its territories. Since 2011 the Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis , an ACAP-listed species...
The South Georgia Heritage Trust ( SGHT ) announced last week that South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* is deemed to be free of rodents after a long campaign “with some bird species already showing very dramatic signs of recovery” ( click here )....
A year forward from this week, the long-awaited attempt to eradicate “killer” House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island will commence by the UK’s Royal Society for Bird Protection ( RSPB ). Success will give the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross...
