Graeme Elliott ( Science and Capability Group , Department of Conservation, Nelson, New Zealand) and colleagues have published a report in the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s DOC Research and Development Series on research conducted...
Last month ACAP Latest News reported that New Zealand invasive species expert John Parkes was to undertake a feasibility study for the eradication of House Mice Mus musculus on South Africa’s Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean during the annual...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will know of the plans to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus next year on New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island , home of seven species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Antipodes Island, with...
Auckland Island, the main island in the group at 510-km², along with Adams , Disappointment , Enderby and several other smaller islands, forms part of New Zealand’s Auckland Islands National Nature Reserve . A view of Auckland Island, photograph by...
An international team will be heading for sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island next month to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus by aerial poison bait drop. This follows on a successful fund-raising campaign by the Morgan Foundation ’s Million...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News over the last five years will be well aware of the devastation that long-introduced House Mice Mus musculus are causing to the birds of Gough Island , including to its near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan...
News is in from Stephen Horn, Project Manager for the “ Million Dollar Mouse ” project to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island , that aerial baiting finally commenced on 18 July after having been ready from the...
Despite a winter campaign with intermittent poor weather the Million Dollar Mouse project successfully completed the second aerial drop of poison bait on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island on 12 July – just in time before a major storm hit the island two...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Rt Hon John Key has made a speech that makes a commitment for a predator-free New Zealand by 2050 ( click here ). Speaking at the Zealandia wildlife sanctuary in Wellington this Monday, the Prime Minister...
Stephen Horn has been appointed as the Pest Eradication Project Manager by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation to lead the eradication of the remaining introduced mammals on sub-Antarctic Auckland Island . Stephen previously managed the “Million...
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the Million Dollar Mouse project that led to the attempt to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island . After a period of fund raising and planning, poison bait was dropped...
The Tenth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee ( AC10 ) was held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 11 to 15 September 2017. The report of the meeting is now available online here . Meeting documents and information papers considered at the meeting are...
Over the last few decades efforts, mostly successful, have been made to eradicate introduced predatory mammals on many of the Southern Ocean’s sub-Antarctic islands, notably New Zealand’s Campbell Island and Australia’s Macquarie Island among others....
A 10-strong monitoring team, along with three rodent-detection dogs, is about to spend three weeks on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island searching for signs of House Mice Mus musculus. The team will be transported to the island next week by the New Zealand...
Following fund raising from the public by the Million Dollar Mouse campaign, along with other support, in July 2016 New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island was aerially treated with poison bait in an endeavour to rid it of introduced House Mice...
The South Georgia Heritage Trust ( SGHT ) announced last week that South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* is deemed to be free of rodents after a long campaign “with some bird species already showing very dramatic signs of recovery” ( click here )....
Speaking at Forest and Bird ’s 2018 Conference this last weekend, the Green Party Conservation Minister for New Zealand, Eugenie Sage MP , has committed NZ$2 million over the next three years to complete planning, including field trials, towards making...
It has been six months since New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island was officially announced as being free of introduced House Mice Mus musculus following an eradication campaign and two seasons later follow-up monitoring by the Million Dollar...
One member of the “Million Dollar Mouse” field team on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island aimed at eradicating House Mice Mus musculus in 2016 was Keith Springer, with the dual roles of Operational Advisor and Safety Officer. Keith had previously managed a...
