The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has postponed the intended eradication of the albatross-killing House Mice Mus musculus of Gough Island in the South Atlantic from next year to 2020. According to the RSPB this will allow more...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is seeking an Operational Manager experienced in the management of pest eradication and/or control projects, ideally involving aerial baiting, to oversee a House Mouse eradication...
Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena breeding on World Heritage Gough Island in the South Atlantic are at great risk of extinction due in part to introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking and killing their chicks in the hours...
Anthony Caravaggi ( School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences , University College Cork, Ireland) and colleagues have yesterday published open access in Ibis - International Journal of Avian Science on estimates of the numbers of breeding...
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...
Over 25 January – 2 February this year an island-based research team of the RSPB ’s Gough Island Restoration Programme undertook the annual whose-island count of incubating Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena (read more on team...
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 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB) is leading the eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus from the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic in the austral winter of next year as a key component of the Gough...
Last week the Gough Island Restoration Programme got underway to rid the island of its introduced House Mice Mus musculus that attack and kill chicks of the Critically Endangered and near-endemic Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena (and of other of...
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...
In 2006/07 and 2007/08 I spent two summers on Gough, a UK island in the South Atlantic, working on alien plant eradications with small teams of volunteers. As well as this necessary work towards the island’s conservation management, we climbed into...
