{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena, an ACAP-listed species endemic to the Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic, has been recategorized as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International on behalf of the World Conservation Union...
{mosimage} National Geographic Deutschland, Deutsche Lufthansa, the Zoological Research Museum Koenig and the Convention on Migratory Species ( CMS ) have announced the 2008 winner of the UNEP/CMS Thesis Award on Migratory Species Conservation . The...
{mosimage} It is now well known that the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic kill large numbers of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year, directly leading to the species’ recent re-designation as...
{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was recently upgraded to Critically Endangered, due to the double blow of fishing mortality to birds at sea (mainly on long-lines) and House Mouse predation on chicks at its sole significant breeding...
It is now well known that the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic's Tristan da Cunha Group, is driving the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena towards extinction - by active...
A paper published on-line in 2009 and in the February 2010 issue of the journal Antarctic Science by researchers at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa has shown that it is not only Gough Island in the South Atlantic...
South African research on ACAP-listed species is primarily carried out at two island groups, South Africa's Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project is about to get underway after a number of years of planning. Aerial baiting of the island is scheduled for June this year. The Aurora Australia is set to travel to the island from Hobart, Australia next...
Recent research on South Atlantic Gough Island is providing insight into the demographics of ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea . Threatened both by drowning on fishery longlines and depredation by introduced mammals, the conservation status...
An international team of nine marine ornithologists, island conservation managers and rope-access technicians (and ACAP's Information Officer) leaves Cape Town this afternoon on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , for Gough...
Enderby Island at 700 ha still remains the largest island from which the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus has definitely been removed - back in 1993. Enderby is part of New Zealand's Auckland Island group and supports a population of ACAP-listed...
Yet once more the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are having a very poor breeding year. Of an estimated 1826 incubating birds in early February 2010 only 406 chicks could be counted this and last month,...
It is now surely well-known that the introduced House Mice of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are wreaking havoc amongst its birds up to the size of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena , whose chicks are...
Richard Cuthbert of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and colleagues report this month in the journal Wildlife Research on the susceptibility to poison bait of the "killer mice" of Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
New Zealand's Department of Conservation announced last month that the linked islands of Motutapu and Rangitoto in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland are now considered clear of nine alien mammal species, including the House Mouse Mus musculus , following...
The UK Environment Minister Richard Benyon announced funding of UK£250 000 towards a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) project to eradicate the introduced "killer" House Mice Mus musculus mice on Gough Island at a meeting of the UK...
Over 15-16 March BirdLife South Africa and the University of Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute hosted a conference " Frontiers in South African Ornithology " in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Four presentations were given that will be of interest...
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...
