A paper published on-line in 2009 and in the February 2010 issue of the journal Antarctic Science by researchers at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa has shown that it is not only Gough Island in the South Atlantic...
South African research on ACAP-listed species is primarily carried out at two island groups, South Africa's Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research...
Enderby Island at 700 ha still remains the largest island from which the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus has definitely been removed - back in 1993. Enderby is part of New Zealand's Auckland Island group and supports a population of ACAP-listed...
It must now be well known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena and several other seabird species that breed on Gough Island are deleteriously affected by attacks on their chicks by the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus . For news of how...
Richard Cuthbert of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and colleagues report this month in the journal Wildlife Research on the susceptibility to poison bait of the "killer mice" of Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
Over 15-16 March BirdLife South Africa and the University of Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute hosted a conference " Frontiers in South African Ornithology " in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Four presentations were given that will be of interest...
The eradication of alien vertebrate species on oceanic islands is now an increasingly well-known and practiced conservation method. On islands around the world, in both hemispheres and in many seas and oceans, islands of successively increasing size...
The first Southern Ocean island from which the alien House Mouse Mus musculus has been eradicated was 700-ha Enderby Island in New Zealand's Auckland Island group. This 1993 effort was primarily directed at European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus . A...
Our Far South is a Morgan Foundation project aimed at raising New Zealanders' awareness of the area south of Stewart Island. Its latest activity is the Million Dollar Mouse campaign which aims to raise that sum to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus...
The Prince Edward Islands, made up of the two sub-Antarctic islands of Marion and Prince Edward, are South Africa's only overseas possessions. Declared a Special Nature Reserve in 1995, South Africa's highest level of protection, and a Ramsar Wetland...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign is now halfway to raising the one million New Zealand Dollars that will be required for the Department of Conservation to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Antipodes Island . Once the campaign target...
A contingent of six marine ornithologists (John Cooper, Robert Crawford, Bruce Dyer, Genevieve Jones, Azwianewi Makhado and Ross Wanless) from South Africa attended the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand...
Sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean belongs to South Africa. It has been the site of ornithological research on seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, for over half a century. The following text is taken from the...
"Islands are the epicenter of the current global extinction crisis and invasive vertebrates are the leading cause of extinction on islands. Removing invasive vertebrates from islands is a well-established tool to protect and restore island ecosystems...
NASA Earth Observer 1 ALI satellite photograph Prince Edward Island is the smaller of the two Prince Edward Islands, South African property in the southern Indian Ocean. Unlike its larger neighbour with its year-round weather and research station,...
Over the past 14 month’s field researchers, Ben Dilley and Delia Davis of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , University of Cape Town, have studied four species of burrowing petrels on South Africa’s Marion Island . Grey Petrel on...
Richard Cuthbert ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ) and colleagues have published in the journal Antarctic Science of yet more harm being caused by predatory House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island – this time reporting attacks on a further...
Sue Robinson ( Invasive Species Branch , Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Australia ) and Geoff Copson writing in the journal Ecological Management & Restoration give the history of the successful eradication of...
Planning for the eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island is now underway with the Department of Conservation ( DOC ) recently appointing a Project Manager to run the exercise ( click here ). It is aimed to...
Despite valiant efforts to eradicate them World-wide, rodents continue to threaten seabirds at their breeding islands, with the House Mice Mus musculus of Gough and Marion Islands that attack albatross and burrowing petrel chicks being significant...
