The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) aims to reduce the numbers of introduced European Rabbits on the island before this year's poison bait drop so there will be fewer poisoned corpses for scavenging seabirds to feed from come May....
Macquarie Island UPDATE 27 March: Click here to read about preparation activities on the island prior to the arrival of the MIPEP team next month. On 20 April the Aurora Australis is due to arrive at the island to restart the Macquarie Island Pest...
No rodents have been seen since this year's complete-island bait drop by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) on "Macca", and only a few remaining rabbits have been hunted down and killed post-drop ( click here ). Reference: Shaw, J.,...
Island Pest Eradication Project ín the project's latest blog and also in the latest issue ( No. 9 of November 2001 ) of MIPEP's newsletter Macquarie Dispatch . Click here to access the earlier numbers. To date 13 rabbits have been hunted down and killed...
Unlike for the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) when many seabirds died ( click here ), very few seabirds have been found dead after Phase One of the South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project. Last year in April 12 800 ha of South...
On Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island in the southern Pacific the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) is proceeding well since the big poison bat drop last year ( click here ). Efforts to hunt down the remaining European Rabbits...
month's news from the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project is very promising as shown by the following extract from MIPEP's latest blog by Dana Boyte: "The rabbit story so far: 13 dead rabbits since start of hunting phase. No rabbits have been...
mice have been seen since the bait drop last year, so this eradication effort remains well on track. To keep in touch with MIPEP (the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ) follow " This Week at Macquarie " on the Australian Antarctic Division web...
attractively put-together book. The successful removal of cats and the current Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) to eradicate the island's alien rabbits and rodents is reported on in pictures and in words. The book does not "talk down"...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) continues to proceed on track. No signs of introduced European Rabbits have been seen all this year, as shown by the following extract from the latest Macquarie Dispatch , the project's newsletter...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) continues on its successful way with no European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus seen for nearly a year now - save for one of the dogs finding a "very old mummified" rabbit last month: "October was...
We eagerly await a reply. This is the second French black-brow recorded breeding on Macquarie Island. With the help of MIPEP [ Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ] hunters, three grey-headed albatross have been found nesting in two new locations:...
islands. In the south Pacific it seems increasingly likely that Australia's Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) will succeed in ridding the island of its introduced rabbits and rodents . In the South Atlantic on South Georgia (Islas...
effort has been successful." The last live rabbits seen by field teams of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) teams were killed over a year ago, in November 2011, and it is now thought there are less than five left on the island....
The coastal slopes of Macquarie Island , a sub-Antarctic island approximately half way between Australia and Antarctica, are home to seven species of ACAP listed albatrosses and petrels. Macquarie Island is a State Nature Reserve managed by the...
survived the July 2011 poison bait drop are continuing by field workers of the Macquarie Invasive Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ). The customary two-year waiting period during which no pests are recorded after which success is announced is...
Guillaume Lapin or just plan Billy Bunny, in any language the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) seems set to succeed. This ambitious multi-year project aims to eradicate three species of introduced mammals from Australia’s...
of ACAP-listed Nort hern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli , caused by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project (MIPEP ). She describes “the impact of poison baiting on giant petrels, during the rabbit, rat and mouse eradication project on the...
and my notebook, I set off for Waterfall Bay on day one, to get ahead of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) crowd also heading down island on the same day. When we identify a wanderer by reading the number on the band around its...
cuniculus , Black Rats Rattus rattus and the House Mouse Mus musculus by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Programme ( MIPEP ). This news follows the earlier eradication of feral Domestic Cats Felis catus from the island. In 2007, the Australian...
