After a 10-day voyage the South African annual relief expedition finally arrived at its destination today: Gough Island in the south Atlantic. The relief of South Africa’s weather station on this British island (part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas...
On 13 September a colour-banded Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus was observed from South Africa’s Antarctic supply and research ship, the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II while at anchor off the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The bird...
Another essential step has been taken in the progress towards eradication of the alien House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . This morning a Bell 212 helicopter...
In October 1982 I set up a small study of ACAP-listed Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on Gough Island in the South Atlantic during the annual relief of the South African weather station. With colleagues at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick...
For many years South Africa has leased a small area of land above Transvaal Bay on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic to operate a weather station. The station is relieved once a year in September/October, currently by the S.A....
As in previous years two complete-island censuses have been undertaken this year of breeding Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Site Gough Island. This Critically Endangered albatross is threatened with extinction by predatory...
Last year ACAP Latest News reported on the first complete census of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus on Gough Island, the species’ most northerly breeding site. A total of 253 incubating birds was counted at four widely-separated localities...
In October 1982 I set up a small study of ACAP-listed Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on Gough Island in the South Atlantic during the annual relief of the South African weather station. With colleagues at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick...
Albatrosses and skuas generally make uneasy neighbours. On Gough Island breeding Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche chlororhynchos tend to look up suspiciously when a predatory Tristan Skua Catharacta antarctica hamiltoni flies overhead too...
The fatal attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus on chicks of near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Gough Island must surely now be well known ( click here ). Each year researchers on the...
A Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus identified as coming from the Low Hump demographic study colony on Gough Island by the presence of a yellow engraved band on its left leg was photographed landing next to and then attempting to tear open...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is seeking a Senior Conservation Scientist (permanent position) to manage a range of research projects on threatened bird species, mainly in the United Kingdom's Overseas Territories in the South...
John Cooper ( Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology , Stellenbosch University) and colleagues write in Aliens the Invasive Species Bulletin (Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group ) on the risks of inadvertently moving rodents...
Timothy Reid ( FitzPatrick Institute , University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the journal Endangered Species Research on the non-breeding movements of Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena from...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) received a grant last month to a ssess the conservation status of the Endangered and ACAP-listed Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassar che chlororhynchos on the main island of Tristan da Cunha,...
Middle and Stoltenhoff Islands lie off Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic. They form part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. “Middle Island (approximately 10 ha) is a fairly low lying island...
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...
The ACAP Data Portal is a gateway to the underlying data that support the work of the Agreement. The public, non-password protected part of the portal gives information on species, breeding localities (mainly named islands), most recent population...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is perhaps the most threatened species listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement, facing as it does the twin threats of chick predation by mice ashore and longlining mortality at sea...
The results of the latest round of grant opportunities made by ACAP have now been announced. Funding of approximately AUD 110 000 was available for allocation from the Advisory Committee (AC) Work Programme budget for 2013-14, with a maximum of AUD 20...
