) and colleagues have modelled the possible outcomes of eradicating introduced mammals on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, home of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, publishing in the Journal of Applied Ecology early this year. The paper's...
Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division have studied what's been happening to the vegetation at Australia's Macquarie Island after the poison bait drops that commenced last year to remove European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus , Black or...
UPDATE 7 December Rea d the latest news of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ín the project's latest blog and also in the latest issue ( No. 9 of November 2001 ) of MIPEP's newsletter Macquarie Dispatch . Click here to access the earlier...
pushing the boundaries of rat eradications. P.J. McClelland Planning processes for eradication of multiple pest species on Macquarie Island - an Australian case study. K. Springer Introduced mammal eradications in the Falkland Islands and South...
Act of 1995 and is considered to be globally Near Threatened . Grey Petrels were first recorded as breeding on Australia's Macquarie Island in 1900 but an 80-year absence followed and they were considered to be no longer present. However, in 1999 three...
Unlike for the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) when many seabirds died ( click here ), very few seabirds have been found dead after Phase One of the South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project. Last year in April 12 800 ha of South...
in an attempt to conserve their indigenous species and restore their natural habitats. On Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island in the southern Pacific the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) is proceeding well since the big poison...
within Australia, including within its Exclusive Economic Zone and the sub-Antarctic island groups of Heard & McDonald and Macquarie. The six threatened ACAP-listed species that breed within Australia have their breeding sites marked on the maps by red...
43 pages. Citations go up to 2010. I tested coverage of Southern Ocean islands by searching the index for Campbell, Gough, Macquarie and Marion Islands: all places where important eradication exercises have been carried out or are planned. Campbell gets...
in removing its rabbits and the Black Rat Rattus rattus . Current attempts and plans to eradicate introduced mammals on Macquarie Island and South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* are primarily directed at rats (both islands), rabbits (Macquarie) and...
According to the Australian Antarctic Division 's " This Week at Macquarie " on-line newsletter, all six pairs of Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans breeding this year on the island have hatched their eggs. This is good news for what is the...
The Macquarie Island fishery for Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides in the Southern Ocean is currently under assessment by the certification body, Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), for the Marine Stewardship Council ( MSC ). The...
population is thought to be the six pairs of Wandering Albatrosses D. exulans that are currently breeding on Australia's Macquarie Island ( click here ). The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross is endemic to the Tristan Group, with the main...
Last year Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island was treated with poison bait to eradicate its Black Rats Rattus rattus , House Mice M us musculus and European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus - all introduced aliens. Since then a team of hunters with...
with seabirds. Buller's Albatrosses interact with New Zealand fisheries Photograph by Chris Golding In addition, the Macquarie Island Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides fishery (in FAO Statistical Area 81) has also been certified by the MSC...
still required to meet the target to enable the attempt to go ahead next year. Nine mice are now Xed out, eleven to go! Macquarie Island So far no rabbits have been reported on Australia Macquarie Island since November following the winter poison bait...
One Small Island , which describes the history of the introduction, effects and eradication of introduced mammals on Macquarie Island in an attractively put-together book. The successful removal of cats and the current Macquarie Island Pest Eradication...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) continues to proceed on track. No signs of introduced European Rabbits have been seen all this year, as shown by the following extract from the latest Macquarie Dispatch , the project's newsletter...
of albatrosses and petrels, including South Africa's Prince Edward Islands, Australia's Heard and MacDonald Islands and Macquarie Island and New Zealand's Auckland Islands. In the North Pacific the USA's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument around...
and titles of six Aussie oral and poster presentations at IAPC5 are listed below. Rachael Alderman & Rosemary Gales: Macquarie Island's giant petrels and the impacts of the pest eradication program. O38. Rachael Alderman & Rosemary Gales: The Shy...
