A contingent of six marine ornithologists (John Cooper, Robert Crawford, Bruce Dyer, Genevieve Jones, Azwianewi Makhado and Ross Wanless) from South Africa attended the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand...
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...
Sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean belongs to South Africa. It has been the site of ornithological research on seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, for over half a century. The following text is taken from the...
"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...
Yesterday, ACAP Latest News looked back on highlights in albatross and petrel conservation during 2012 - and also reported on what ACAP has been doing and achieving over the year. Today, befitting the start of a new year we look forward to what can be...
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...
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...
Over the past 14 month’s field researchers, Ben Dilley and Delia Davis of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , University of Cape Town, have studied four species of burrowing petrels on South Africa’s Marion Island . Grey Petrel on...
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...
