{mosimage} Many of the islands of the Southern Ocean support populations of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Here follows a listing of current, formally adopted management plans for various sub -Antarctic and cool-temperate islands and island...
{mosimage} The sub-Antarctic and cool temperate islands of the Southern Ocean all support populations of ACAP-listed species of albatrosses and petrels. A large number of books and booklets has been published since the year 2000 dealing with various...
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement aims to improve the protection of listed species both on land and at sea. The development and proclamation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) or their equivalents surrounding localities where ACAP-listed species breed...
An alphabetical listing of current, formally adopted management plans for breeding sites of ACAP-listed species is given. For several sites earlier management plans have been published, which are now superseded and so are not listed below. Existing...
The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. There are...
feasibility of eradicating Norway Rats from South Georgia Island . Invercargill: Department of Conservation. 16 pp. South Georgia Heritage Trust 2012. Operational Plan for the Eradication of Rodents from South Georgia: Phase 2. Seventh Draft - 20 Nov...
Sandwich Islands. 48 pp. ISBN 0 9529008 1 5. Burton, Robert 2013. The Maritime History of South Georgia . Dundee: South Georgia Heritage Trust. 32 pp. ISBN 978-09564546-2-1. www.sght.org . Burton, Robert & Croxall, John P. (Eds). 2012. A Field Guide to...
The Macca bait drop has commenced. Go to http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=7288 The long-in-the-making plans to eradicate the alien terrestrial mammals of Australia's Macquarie Island have reached fruition and the actual eradication programme has...
Issue 7 of Project News , the Newsletter of the Habitat Restoration Project of the South Georgia* Heritage Trust , reveals there have been no reports of rats or rat sign up to the end of May in the vicinity of the buildings at King Edward Point, within...
Over the last few years, efforts to eradicate introduced rodents and other mammalian invaders from seabird islands have moved up yet another notch, in terms of complexity, island size, numbers of species to eradicate and island remoteness. Current...
poison bait over South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* Phootgraph courtesey of Tony Martin A report by the South Georgia Heritage Trust Advisory Panel on Non-target Mortality reveals only 153 birds were found dead after the bait drop, compared to 2190...
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...
island well known and loved by Shackleton ( click here ). The Habitat Restoration Project launched by the South Georgia Heritage Trust is the largest rodent eradication programme ever undertaken. Once South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* is rat-free...
"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...
(Eds). 2012. A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia . Princeton: Princeton University Press. WILDGuides & South Georgia Heritage Trust. 200 pp. Croxall, J.P., Prince, P.A., Rothery, P. & Wood, A.G. 1998. Population changes in albatrosses at...
(Eds). 2012. A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia . Princeton: Princeton University Press. WILDGuides & South Georgia Heritage Trust. 200 pp. Croxall, J.P., Prince, P.A., Rothery, P. & Wood, A.G. 1998. Population changes in albatrosses at...
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 Georgias del Sur)* lies behind rodent-free Albatross Island and its Wandering...
Jeffrey Dawson ( RSPB Centre for Conservation Science , Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, United Kingdom ) and colleagues have published in the journal Conservation Biology on prioritizing islands in the United Kingdom Overseas...
South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* , photograph by Kirk Zufelt Meanwhile on the rodent eradication scene the South Georgia Heritage Trust has been awarded a quarter of a million pounds towards the final phase of its Habitat Restoration Project from...
winds made one of the three helicopters unserviceable so “Team Rat” has had its setbacks. Related news from the South Georgia Heritage Trust is of the finding of the first South Georgia Pipit Anthus antarcticus nest, containing five chicks, in an area...
