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...
Mice are the only introduced mammal include New Zealand's Antipodes Island. To date, however, there are no reports of Antipodes mice affecting seabirds directly, although it has been shown they do impact the island's invertebrate fauna. A mouse-free...
restricted to these islands." Antipodean Albatrosses. Photograph by Derren Fox Although as yetthere are no reports of Antipodes mice attacking ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels directly on the Antipodes, as they do on Gough and Marion Islands, it is...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to raise sufficient non-governmental funds to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus of New Zealand's Antipodes Island has now reached over one-quarter of its target, with NZ 302 680 raised by 20 April. The...
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)....
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...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign is now halfway to raising the one million New Zealand Dollars that will be required for the Department of Conservation to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Antipodes Island . Once the campaign target...
This month six men will start to walk the last 97 miles to the South Pole that Ernest Shackleton failed to cover on his epic journey in 1909. The team is to include three wounded soldiers from Captain Oates' Regiment, now the Royal Dragoon Guards, who...
The bidding eventually stopped at NZ$ 4970 following an exciting flurry of bids that started from NZ$ 4120 in the last 20 minutes of "extra time" as the two remaining bidders battled it out NZ$ 10 at a time. Congratulations (and thanks) to the winner,...
Three new marine reserves around New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands will be created under the Subantarctic Islands Marine Reserves Bill , Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson announced earlier this month. The Bill has had its first reading in...
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...
The latest issue ( No. 15, February 2013 ) of Project News , the newsletter of the South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project has been published on line. The ambitious project aims to eliminate all the introduced rats and mice on the island of South...
The Antipodes Islands are the most remote group among the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands. Located 860 km south-east of Stewart Island, the group comprises Antipodes Island (2000 ha), Bollons Island (20 ha) and a number of smaller islets and rocks....
Regular readers of ACA P Latest News will know of the several alien mammal eradication programmes ongoing or planned on sub-Antarctic islands supporting breeding populations of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. These include New Zealand’s Antipodes...
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...
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...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will have been keeping abreast of the ambitious attempts to rid South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic of three species of introduced mammals: Norwegian Rats Rattus norvegicus , House Mice Mus...
Australia’s World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has been formally declared free of all alien mammals this week after a near-seven-year campaign to eradicate European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus , Black Rats Rattus rattus and the House Mouse Mus...
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...
House Mice Mus musculus were introduced to New Zealand’s Antipodes Island in the middle of the 20th century. Since then evidence has been mounting of their deleterious effects on the island’s plants, invertebrates and birds ( click here ). The island...
