As many people might be aware, introduced European Rabbit numbers on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island have increased over the last 15 years with significant impacts on the island's vegetation. The devastating loss of habitat over this time...
and the operational plan. To read about another ongoing eradication effort at a Southern Ocean island, visit the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 5 February 2011 *A dispute exists between the Governments...
The following news is taken from the latest This Week at Macquarie . "As part of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project and under the management of TASPARKS ranger Justin, we are gearing up to distribute Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease virus to the...
ACAP news item about this project. To read about another ongoing eradication effort on a Southern Ocean island, visit the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project . John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 18 February 2011 *A dispute exists between the...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) aims to reduce the numbers of introduced European Rabbits on the island before this year's poison bait drop so there will be fewer poisoned corpses for scavenging seabirds to feed from come May....
integrated invasive animal research programme. Newsletter No. 6 of February 2011 reports on latest developments with the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project (poison baiting this year is to start in April). Research towards removing introduced...
can also be found on Facebook . To read about another ongoing eradication effort on a Southern Ocean island, visit the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project . John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 3 March 2011 *A dispute exists between the...
Candy ( Australian Antarctic Division ) have taken growth-rate data collected on Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans at Macquarie Island fully half a century ago and compared it with similar temporal data from Bird Island in the South Atlantic. The...
to rid islands in the Southern Ocean of introduced mammals are proceeding apace. The feral cats of Marion, Campbell and Macquarie all went some years ago and more recently Campbell's rats were eradicated. Attempts are underway this year to get rid of...
Macquarie Island UPDATE 27 March: Click here to read about preparation activities on the island prior to the arrival of the MIPEP team next month. On 20 April the Aurora Australis is due to arrive at the island to restart the Macquarie Island Pest...
a potential hiccup with the supply ship Aurora Australis being slowed by heavy ice farther south earlier this month, the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project is back on track with the eradication team now expected to arrive on ‘Macca' by month-end...
the plan considers will be an "extremely challenging" operation. However, the current efforts to rid Australia's larger Macquarie Island of mice (and of rats and rabbits) ( click here ) should help with a Gough eradication through the experience gained....
The Macquarie Island toothfish fishery , operated by Austral Fisheries and Australian Longline, has entered full assessment for certification with the Marine Stewardship Council ( MSC ). The fishery comprises up to three vessels responsible for a total...
plants (Annual Meadow Grass Poa annua , Cerastium fontanum and Common Chickweed Stellaria media ) are found on Australia's Macquarie Island , where a recent island-wide survey of their distribution has been undertaken. With thanks to Martin Hamilton,...
notch, in terms of complexity, island size, numbers of species to eradicate and island remoteness. Current efforts to rid Macquarie Island and South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* of such pests are the most notable for islands that support breeding...
considered to be globally Near Threatened . The species breeds on cool-temperate and sub-Antarctic islands during winter. Macquarie Island is the only known breeding locality in Australia. Grey Petrels were first recorded as breeding on Macquarie in...
deal with the eradication of alien species on seabird islands around the World, including at Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and on islands in the South Atlantic where ACAP-listed species of albatrosses and petrels breed. Go to...
article in The Australian , less than 30 introduced European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus are thought to remain on Macquarie Island, scene of a major pest-eradication exercise this year. Rabbits, introduced to ‘Macca' in about 1877 as a food source for...
ha in the Auckland Island Group. With the possibility that mice have been eradicated this year on Australia's 12 800-ha Macquarie Island ( click here ), the way seems to be opening for an attempt on the mice on 6 800-ha Gough Island in the South...
at 31 December 2010 within Australia. Within the Australian Territory Grey-headed Albatrosses breed only at sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, where the population was 94 annually-breeding pairs in 2007, representing less than 1% of the species' global...
