under the Convention on Migratory Species. In the latter document the successful Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) is treated as a case study. The review also refers to the ACAP Conservation Guidelines document for the eradication of...
(No. 14 of July 2014 ) of Macquarie Despatch , the newsletter of the successful Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) has been published. In it you can read an article by veteran Australian botanist Jenny Scott entitled “Spectacular...
by secondary poisoning after eating the carcasses of poisoned rabbits during the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Program (MIPEP) three years ago, so keeping tabs on their recovering population numbers now is of considerable interest. Station...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) eradicated three introduced mammals on Australia’s sub-Antarctic island : European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus , Black Rat Rattus rattus and House Mouse Mus musculus following a poison-bait drop...
the eradication of European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus and rodents by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) four years ago. “On our recent trip down island, Andrea [Turbett] and I went searching for grey petrels at some of the...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) has received the Banksia Natural Capital Award this month for successfully ridding the island of its alien rodents and rabbits. Macquarie Island State Nature Reserve managed by the Tasmanian Parks...
Keith Springer ( MIPEP Manager, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service , Moonah, Tasmania, Australia) has reviewed the successful Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project in the open-access New Zealand Journal of Ecology . The paper’s abstract follows:...
and v iew the mouse attack video - not for the faint hearted! A donation page has also been set up to receive contributions. MIPEP's Keith Springer part of the team The Gough Island Restoration Programme team includes the much-experienced New Zealander...
are continuing to do well after the eradication of rabbits and rodents by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) in 2011. “The hunt for grey petrels has continued since May. It has been a team effort searching areas used by grey...
Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli after losses incurred during the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ). “Over the past three weeks, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife team of ranger Chris and wildlife ranger Marcus along with field...
14 seabird species that breed on Macquarie Island following the success of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) in eradicating rodents and rabbits ( click here ). This has resulted in an improved threatened status being recommended...
Agenda Item 6.1. Keith Springer and Noel Carmichael.
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recover to their pre‐poisoning level by 2017 after being knocked back by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ). The paper’s abstract follows: “Pest eradication conducted over the years 2010 to 2014 at Macquarie Island successfully...
zonation of the island (and the successful removal of introduced mammals by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) and its precursors), the main threat to the island’s remaining Wanderers is thought to be interactions of especially...