Mukojima Island in the Japanese Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands supports breeding colonies of genetically distinct Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and of Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses. It is also the site of ongoing attempts to establish a new colony...
The latest newsletter of the South Georgia* Habitat Restoration Project ( No. 4, February 2011 ) gives the news that the two poison bait-dropping helicopters required for Phase One of the project arrived on the South Atlantic island this month on the...
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...
Thirty-hectare Grass Island lies within Stromness Bay, approximately 350 m from the nearest rat-infested mainland area at Tonsberg Point, South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic. The island is ice-free and entirely vegetated. The...
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus pacificus have been identified as a potential candidate species for listing within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Their conservation status on three islands at two widely-separated...
Henderson Island is a World Heritage Site in the South Pacific, part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Pitcairn. Last year an aerial poison bait drop by helicopter aimed to eradicate the island's Polynesian Rats or Kiore Rattus exulans....
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...
been successful. This and next year the rest of the island will be treated with poison bait dropped from helicopters. “Team Rat” arrived at the island in mid-February on the RRS Ernest Shackleton with three Bolköw BO-105 helicopters aboard and has spent...
Russell Wynn ( National Oceanography Centre , Southampton, UK) reports on recent activities by the Project Shearwater team that has been studying ACAP-listed and Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters Puffinus mauretanicus at Spain’s Mediterranean...
The efforts to remove Brown Rats Rattus norvegicus from the inhabited islands of St. Agnes and Gugh (connected by a tombolo ) in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly have commenced. Rat removal in the Scilly Isles will help protect small populations of...
Guillaume Lapin or just plan Billy Bunny, in any language the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) seems set to succeed. This ambitious multi-year project aims to eradicate three species of introduced mammals from Australia’s...
Following the successful eradication of Norway or Brown Rats Rattus norvegicus from the inhabited islands of St. Agnes and Gugh in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly ( click here ) the news is in that Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus are about to...
2 of the project. The nest, containing five chicks, was discovered by none other than Sally Poncet, a former member of Team Rat and expert on the wildlife of South Georgia. This thrilling news shows the rapid impact of the Habitat Restoration Project on...
Darwin Plus Fund ( click here ). The grant will contribute towards personnel, travel, accommodation and operating costs of Team Rat’s efforts to eradicate Norwegian or Brown Rats Rattus norvegicus and House Mice Mus musculus from the island and for...
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 bucket flies over the island The third and final phase of bait dropping is now underway, in the...
ambitious plan by the South Georgia Heritage Trust to eradicate rodents over the whole island moves towards completion. Team Rat’s latest report for 14 March is given below in full. With 80% of the Phase 3 target area baited and the smaller species of...
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 two days ago on Monday the 23rd as reported in Project News No. 26. "At 12:37...
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the parlous state of Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic whose downy chicks are attacked and killed by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every year, leading to a low...
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...
previously managed the successful project to eradicate rodents and rabbits on Australia’s Macquarie Island and was part of Team Rat on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)*. The six bait loaders include Jason Zito from Hawaii and Jose-Luis Hererra...
