The Scientific Council of the Convention on Migratory Species ( CMS ) will hear a report from its By-catch Working Group this week in Bonn, Germany at its 18th Meeting . Inter alia , the council will review an assessment report (...
The final issue (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...
On islands all around the Southern Ocean ornithological field researchers are starting the busy season as most of the seabird species return to breed. Australia’s latest This week at Macquarie Island on-line newsletter reports from the southern...
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 following report by Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Anna Lashko is taken from the on-line newsletter " This week at Macquarie Island " for 24 July . It shows that ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea are returning to previous...
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:...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News over the last five years will be well aware of the devastation that long-introduced House Mice Mus musculus are causing to the birds of Gough Island , including to its near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan...
Wildlife Rangers and ornithological field workers Marcus Salton and Kim Kliska on Australia’s Macquarie Island report that Near Threatened and ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea are continuing to do well after the eradication of rabbits and...
of breeding success. Last year the census showed that the population is stable and has continued to increase post-MIPEP. This year it appears there is a slight increase in breeding numbers, however only time will tell if the chicks survive to continue...
BirdLife Australia ’s Threatened Species Committee has recognised an improved conservation outlook for eight of the 14 seabird species that breed on Macquarie Island following the success of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) in...
Agenda Item 6.1. Keith Springer and Noel Carmichael.
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Rachael Alderman ( Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment , Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Ecological Modelling showing that Macquarie Island’s Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli...
Three pairs of globally and nationally Vulnerable Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans are breeding on Australia’s Macquarie Island this current season, according to information received by ACAP Latest News from Tasmania's Department of Primary...
