on deaths from non-target poisoning, especially of ACAP-listed Nort hern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli , caused by the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project (MIPEP ). She describes “the impact of poison baiting on giant petrels, during the rabbit,...
The Bishop and Clerk Islets lie approximately 33 km south of Australia’s Macquarie Island . They consist of Bishop Islet, a rocky platform with some shallow patches of soil c . 3 ha in area with a highest point of c . 45 m , surrounded by 24 smaller...
Australia’s Macquarie Island is recovering from the ravages of now-removed introduced mammals, allowing its seabirds to breed without predation by cats and rats and habitat alteration by rabbits ( click here ). News of research on Macquarie’s small...
Albatross PhD student Jamie Cleeland writes at the end of last month from Australia’s Macquarie Island : “Resupply is coming and the station is buzzing! With all 41 expeditioners back on station there are many preparations to be made for the...
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...
and flowering megaherbs such as the Campbell Island Daisy Pleurophyllum speciosum , Ross Lily Bulbinella rossii and Macquarie Island Cabbage Stilbocarpa polaris , with scattered areas of Hebe elliptica shrubland and fellfield around the island’s top....
alien species on species protected under the Convention on Migratory Species. In the latter document the successful Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) is treated as a case study. The review also refers to the ACAP Conservation...
The final issue (No. 14 of July 2014 ) of Macquarie Despatch , the newsletter of the successful Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) has been published. In it you can read an article by veteran Australian botanist Jenny Scott entitled...
were seen ( click here ). Over 18 days aboard the Spirit of Enderby visits were made to the Snares, the Auckland Islands, Macquarie Island, Campbell Island, the Antipodes Islands, the Bounty Islands and the Chatham Islands. The detailed report contains...
that lie north of the Subantarctic Front and yet fall into SCAR's area of interest include: Ile Amsterdam, Ile St Paul, Macquarie Island and Gough Island. http://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-bodies/scar/ Selected Literature: Healy, M. 2007....
researchers are starting the busy season as most of the seabird species return to breed. Australia’s latest This week at Macquarie Island on-line newsletter reports from the southern Pacific: “Our TASPAWS rangers, ranger in charge Chris and wildlife...
smallest population is thought to be the seven pairs of Wandering Albatrosses D. exulans that are breeding on Australia's Macquarie Island this year ( click here ). The last recorded breeding attempt by a Tristan Albatross on Inaccessible Island was in...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) eradicated three introduced mammals on Australia’s sub-Antarctic island : European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus , Black Rat Rattus rattus and House Mouse Mus musculus following a poison-bait drop...
has been achieved three support breeding populations of ACAP-listed species: Little Barrier (New Zealand, 2817 ha), Macquarie (Australia, 12 780 ha) and the largest, Marion (South Africa, 29 000 ha). The paper’s abstract follows: “Feral cats ( Felis...
year of their original designation these eight very large MPAs are: Galapagos Marine Reserve , Ecuador, 1998, 133 000 km² Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and Marine Park , Australia, 1999, 162 000 km² Heard and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve ,...
Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao ( Department of Biological Sciences , Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia) has written in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology on the need for “adaptive management” to reduce the potential for albatross mortality (12...
include veteran helicopter pilot, Peter Garden and also Keith Springer who led the successful operation to rid Australia’s Macquarie Island of its introduced mammals). Plans to treat the remaining southern third of the island of over 360 km² with 4000...
Australian albatross researchers Kate Lawrence and Jarrod Hodgson who are currently stationed on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island report that four Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans have fledged from the 2104 breeding cohort. “Macca” supports one of...
been undertaken this year at other sub-Antarctic islands where the species breeds, such as Bird in the South Atlantic and Macquarie in the southern Pacific. All occupied nests visited were checked for the presence of eggs and bands on the incubating...
Yuna Kim ( Department of Biological Sciences , Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) has been awarded her PhD for a study of the Vulnerable Gould’s or White-winged Petrel Pterodroma leucoptera on Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales, Australia....
