Jennifer Lavers ( Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania, Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation on using burrow scopes to determine...
Jennifer Lavers ( Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania, Australia) and colleagues have published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin on assessing plastic loads in Flesh-footed Shearwaters Ardenna carneipes made up of...
Kelly Hare ( School of Graduate Research , The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand) and colleagues have published open access in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand on seven New Zealand plant and animal species with decreasing...
UPDATE : Read of progress here . "Some 28,000 bait stations were filled across farmed and residential areas starting 22 May, and helicopters will scatter baits over more forested and mountainous parts of the island as soon as weather permit[s]."...
Jennifer Provencher ( Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada , Gatineau, Canada) and colleagues have published in the open-access journal FACETS on recommended best practices for plastic and litter ingestion studies in marine...
At the Eleventh Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee ( AC11 ), held in Brazil in May this year, New Zealand reported that based on current listing prioritisation advice and knowledge of shared threats with other ACAP-listed species, it was considering...
Peter Puskic ( Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Conservation Physiology finding that fatty-acid levels in two shearwater species were not...
journal Ecology and Evolution on at-sea movements of the globally Endangered and Endemic and Nationally Vulnerable Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni. The paper’s abstract follows: “The Hutton's shearwater Puffinus huttoni is an endangered seabird...
Jennifer Lavers ( Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania, Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia) and colleagues have published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin on detecting ultrafine plastics ingested by globally Near...
Jennifer Lavers ( Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania, Battery Point, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology on the sublethal effects of ingested plastic in the...
This year a long-awaited attempt to eradicate Black Rats Rattus rattus and House Mice Mus musculus on Australia’s Lord Howe Island took place, as reported in ACAP Latest News (click here) Following an aerial bait drop coupled with ground baiting...
Flesh-footed Shearwaters Ardenna carnepeis (Toanui) on New Zealand’s Motumahanga or Saddle Back Island currently number between 500 and 600 pairs, a large increase on the 100 to 200 pairs that were present in 1990, according to a recent survey by...
Nicholas Carlile (Department of Planning and Environment, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia) and colleagues have published open access a letter in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation commenting on a previous publication in the same journal...
