The first Southern Ocean island from which the alien House Mouse Mus musculus has been eradicated was 700-ha Enderby Island in New Zealand's Auckland Island group. This 1993 effort was primarily directed at European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus . A...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to raise sufficient non-governmental funds to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand's Antipodes Island has now passed one-third of its target, with NZ$ 352 658 raised by 11 May (click here)....
Ross Wanless ( Seabird Division, BirdLife South Africa ) and colleagues have outlined the plight of yet another seabird species preyed upon by "killer mice" Mus musculus on UK's Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Writing on-line in the journal Animal...
It is now well-known that downy chicks of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses that breed on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are facing nightly onslaughts in winter months from "killer" House Mice that have been...
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...
Chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic have been subjected to attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every winter since at least 2000 when the first observations of wounded...
Richard Cuthbert ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , UK) and colleagues have written in the journal Bird Conservation International on the plight of a suite of burrowing petrels on Gough Island in the South Atlantic thought due to the...
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic starts tomorrow with the Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on Thursday the 5th. Gough forms part of the United...
Another essential step has been taken in the progress towards eradication of the alien House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . This morning a Bell 212 helicopter...
The fatal attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus on chicks of near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Gough Island must surely now be well known ( click here ). Each year researchers on the...
John Cooper ( Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology , Stellenbosch University) and colleagues write in Aliens the Invasive Species Bulletin (Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group ) on the risks of inadvertently moving rodents...
Planning for the eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island is now underway with the Department of Conservation ( DOC ) recently appointing a Project Manager to run the exercise ( click here ). It is aimed to...
Following the success of the Million Dollar Mouse Campaign in raising funds to support the costs of ridding New Zealand’s Antipodes Island of its introduced House Mice Mus musculus ( click here ) a Department of Conservation ( DOC ) expedition is...
The Animal series by Reaktion Books is described as the “first of its kind to explore the historical significance and impact on humans of a wide range of animals, each book in the series takes a different animal and examines its role in history around...
Delia Davies ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the on-line and open-access journal Avian Conservation and Ecology on attacks by...
It is now well known that ACAP-listed albatrosses as well as burrowing petrels face fatal attacks on their chicks by House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, including on the Critically Endangered and near island-endemic Tristan...
Ben Dilley ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) has filmed introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
All things must pass: the 54-month streak comes to an end In the 10 years since 2006 when the Agreement’s website went live, its news section, known as ACAP Latest News , has published a total of 2376 short articles. From June 2011 daily news items...
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...
Richard Cuthbert ( RSPB Centre for Conservation Science , Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK ) and colleagues are publishing early this year in the Journal of Mammalogy o n aspects of the biology of the House Mice Mus musculus of...
