ACAP Latest News has been receiving daily reports by e-mail of progress with helicopter baiting the southern part of South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* as Phase 3 of the ambitious plan by the South Georgia Heritage Trust to eradicate rodents over...
Phase 3 of the rodent-eradication programme on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic, last reported in ACAP Latest News to be 80% completed by the South Georgia Heritage Trust ’s “Team Rat” ( click here ), reached 100% coverage...
Michael Tabak ( Program in Ecology, Department of Zoology & Physiology , University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA) and colleagues have looked at the distribution of Brown or Norway Rats Rattus norvegicus in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)*, publishing...
Last month ACAP Latest News reported that New Zealand invasive species expert John Parkes was to undertake a feasibility study for the eradication of House Mice Mus musculus on South Africa’s Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean during the annual...
Top (10.6 ha) and Bottom (5.7 ha) Islands lie close together near the entrance to Port William in East Falkland in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)*, three quarters of a kilometre off the Cape Pembroke coastline . Both islands are covered in...
The third in the series of Island Invasives Conferences will be held in the Dalhousie Building , University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland over the week 10-14 July 2017, organized by the South Georgia Heritage Trust and the University of Dundee . This...
Tony Martin’s new book (authored along with “Team Rat”) tells the stirring story of ridding South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* of introduced rodents by aerial bombardment of a thousand square kilometres with 12 500 bags of poison bait from three...
Dundee University Professor Tony Martin, Project Director at the South Georgia Heritage Trust , has been named Conservationist of the Year by the Zoological Society of London . Tony Martin Professor Martin headed the “Team Rat” project to eradicate...
The third in the series of Island Invasives Conferences will be held in the Dalhousie Building , University of Dundee , Dundee , Scotland over the week of 10-14 July 2017, organized by the South Georgia Heritage Trust and the University of Dundee . The...
The latest issue ( No. 28 November 2016 ) of Project News , the Newsletter of the South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project is now available. For the last half a decade ACAP Latest News has been reporting regularly on the efforts to rid South Georgia...
Peter Garden , an island eradication helicopter pilot, of Wanaka on New Zealand’s South Island has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s honours list for “services to aviation and conservation”. “Regarded as one of...
Agenda Item 6.1. Martin, A.R. and Richardson, M.G.
Tony Martin ( Centre for Remote Environments , University of Dundee, UK) and Mike Richardson have published open access in the conservation journal Oryx on the eradication attempt made to remove introduced rodents on the island of South Georgia/Islas...
Starting next month a monitoring survey will be undertaken on South Georgia ( Islas Georgias del Sur)* to ascertain if any rodents remain after a five-year eradication project carried out in three phases from 2011 to 2015. Three terrier dogs Will, Wai...
A 10-strong monitoring team, along with three rodent-detection dogs, is about to spend three weeks on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island searching for signs of House Mice Mus musculus. The team will be transported to the island next week by the New Zealand...
The South Georgia Heritage Trust ( SGHT ) announced last week that South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* is deemed to be free of rodents after a long campaign “with some bird species already showing very dramatic signs of recovery” ( click here )....
The Bleaker Island Group lies close off the south-eastern coast of East Falkland (Islas Malvinas)*. The low-lying islands are privately owned; the long, narrow main island is run as a farm and is also visited by day and overnight tourists....
