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...
Justine Shaw, Aleks Terauds and Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division have studied what's been happening to the vegetation at Australia's Macquarie Island after the poison bait drops that commenced last year to remove European Rabbits...
UPDATE 7 December Rea d the latest news of the Macquarie 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...
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...
Large and ambitious programmes are underway on two islands in the Southern Ocean to eradicate introduced rats, mice, rabbits and Reindeer in an attempt to conserve their indigenous species and restore their natural habitats. On Australia's...
Last year Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island was treated with poison bait to eradicate its Black Rats Rattus rattus , House Mice M us musculus and European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus - all introduced aliens. Since then a team of hunters with...
News is in on four ongoing eradication efforts to remove introduced mammals from islands in the Southern Ocean Antipodes Island The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to eradicate House Mice from New Zealand's Antipodes Island is approaching halfway with...
UPDATE The Children's Book Council of Australia has awarded One Small Island the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. This is its second award, the first was the (Australian) Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature ( click...
Australian Antarctic Division 's web site to view recent pictures of the hunting activities and of the dogs involved with MIPEP. With thanks to Keith and Hamish Springer. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 3 September 2012
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...
Field workers on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island have come across two Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria palpebrata that were banded in 1971 as adults, so they are estimated to be at least 45 years old. The news comes from...
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...
Liz Wren ( Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service ) writing in the latest issue of the Australian Antarctic Magazine has good news on the situation on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island where the efforts to eradicate its introduced mammals continue to be on...
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...
Regular readers of ACA P Latest News will know of the several alien mammal eradication programmes ongoing or planned on sub-Antarctic islands supporting breeding populations of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. These include New Zealand’s Antipodes...
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...
Rachael Alderman ( Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment , Hobart, Australia) writes in the latest on-line number of the Australian Antarctic Magazine on deaths from non-target poisoning, especially of ACAP-listed Nort hern...
Australia’s Macquarie Island is recovering from the ravages of now-removed introduced mammals, allowing its seabirds to breed without predation by cats and rats and habitat alteration by rabbits ( click here ). News of research on Macquarie’s small...
Australia’s World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has been formally declared free of all alien mammals this week after a near-seven-year campaign to eradicate European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus , Black Rats Rattus rattus and the House Mouse Mus...
