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...
By deliberate intent, ACAP Latest News reports on matters dealing with the conservation of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters without offering its own opinions or views. However, the work by the pilots who fly their helicopters with such skill in...
The ambitious programme to eradicate the introduced rats and mice on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic is continuing well on track. The latest issue ( No. 11 ) of the habitat restoration project 's newsletter for July...
Andy Clarke ( British Antarctic Survey ) and colleagues, writing in the journal British Birds , have described South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ). "The function of the BirdLife Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme...
This month six men will start to walk the last 97 miles to the South Pole that Ernest Shackleton failed to cover on his epic journey in 1909. The team is to include three wounded soldiers from Captain Oates' Regiment, now the Royal Dragoon Guards, who...
South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic supports introduced populations of three mammals: Reindeer Rangifer tarandus , Norwegian Rat Rattus norvegicus and House Mouse Mus musculus . Efforts to eradicate all three species commenced...
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...
Yesterday, ACAP Latest News looked back on highlights in albatross and petrel conservation during 2012 - and also reported on what ACAP has been doing and achieving over the year. Today, befitting the start of a new year we look forward to what can be...
"The South Georgia Heritage Trust (SGHT) is undertaking the world's largest rodent eradication on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia [Islas Georgias del Sur*]. Commencing with aerial baiting of about 12,800 hectares in 2011, the second phase...
According to a recent issue of the weekly newspaper Penguin News , the programme to remove the introduced Reindeer Rangifer tarandus from South Georgia (Islas Georgia del Sur)* is now underway. The two separate Reindeer herds are being removed over two...
The latest issue ( No. 15, February 2013 ) of Project News , the newsletter of the South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project has been published on line. The ambitious project aims to eliminate all the introduced rats and mice on the island of South...
UPDATE: According to the latest issue of Project News ( No. 16 of April 2013 ) by 31 March baiting has continued westwards to the Salisbury Area (see map below) and has nearly reached the Bay of Isles. Three entire baiting zones have now been treated...
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...
A Black-browed albatross colony on Saunders Island, with The Neck in the background Saunders Island is the second largest offshore island in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)*. It is located in the north-west of the archipelago, comprising an area...
The successful field season to bait the northern section of South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* as part of the ambitious Habitat Restoration Project to eradicate Brown or Norway Rats Rattus norvegicus and House Mice Mus musculus from the whole...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will have been keeping abreast of the ambitious attempts to rid South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic of three species of introduced mammals: Norwegian Rats Rattus norvegicus , House Mice Mus...
The eradication of rats and mice on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia (Isla Georgias del Sur)* remains on track, according to the March 2014 issue (No. 20) of Project News , newsletter of the South Georgia Heritage Trust . South Georgia (Isla...
The South Georgia Habitat Trust has this month published issue No. 23 of its newsletter Project News which informs on progress with Phase 3 of the South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project that aims to rid South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* of its...
Last month a helicopter from a visiting ship was used to survey the Barff Peninsula on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* for any remaining alien Reindeer Rangifer tarandus after two seasons of hunting during which over 6600 animals were removed (...
ACAP Latest News has reported regularly on progress with attempts to eradicate rodents by dropping poison bait from helicopters on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic ( click here ). A Team Rat helicopter with slung bait...
