Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) to remove that island's rodents and rabbits. More recently he was part of Team Rat that has worked to eradicate rodents on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* and is currently the Operational Advisor for the...
has been named Conservationist of the Year by the Zoological Society of London . Tony Martin Professor Martin headed the “Team Rat” project to eradicate Norway Rats Rattus norvegicus and House Mice Mus musculus on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del...
UPDATE: Get the whole story from island Conservation's Operation Lehua website. Lehua is a small, crescent-shaped island situated a kilometre off the coast of Kauai in the USA’s Hawaiian Islands. Small numbers of Black-footed Phoebastria nigripe s and...
The globally Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan has been having a good breeding season in the Maltese Islands, home to approximately 10% of the global population of this seabird species (equating to around 2000 breeding pairs), according...
A team of 50 authors from 40 institutions led by Nick Holmes ( Island Conservation , Santa Cruz, California, USA) has published open access in the online journal PLOS ONE on the results of analysing a data set of 1279 islands worldwide whose Endangered...
The Hawaiian State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) recently announced that that the population of invasive Pacific Rats Rattus exulans on Lehua Island “remains extremely low” two years after three aerial applications of the rodenticide...
Two more sub-Antarctic islands have joined ACAP’s “World Albatross Day Banner Challenge”, both in the southern Indian Ocean. These are France’s Possession Island in the Crozets group, and South Africa’s Marion Island, the larger of the two in the...
