The Animal series by Reaktion Books is described as the “first of its kind to explore the historical significance and impact on humans of a wide range of animals, each book in the series takes a different animal and examines its role in history around...
Applications are sought for research and project funding that will assist the Albatross and Petrel Agreement meet its objective of achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for albatrosses and petrels. Total funding of c . AUD 80 000...
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" (Wells 1904). Albatrosses, like most wild animals, are presumed not to be able to survive for any length of time with serious injuries or disabilities. There are exceptions: I have seen an...
Sarah Gall and Richard Thompson ( Marine Biology & Ecology Research Centre , Plymouth University, United Kingdom ) have reviewed the impact of debris on marine life, including seabirds, in the Marine Pollution Bulletin . Their literature review shows...
T he Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena remains under serious threat from attacks on its chicks by House Mice Mus musculus on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Last year was the poorest breeding year since...
The Brazilian NGO P rojeto Albatroz has produced the first issue of its new publication Boletim Técnico Científíco do Projeto Albatroz . Vol. 1, No.1 dated 2014 contains technical and scientific papers dealing with the conservation of albatrosses and...
Delia Davies ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the on-line and open-access journal Avian Conservation and Ecology on attacks by...
A Senior Research Assistant and two Research Assistants are required for island restoration work on Gough Island , Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean, a World Heritage Site. Field work will include demographic monitoring of the Critically...
Chris Jones, an ornithological field worker on World Heritage Gough Island in the South Atlantic, reports to ACAP Latest News of a Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chick that has gone blind in both eyes in the long-term study...
As far back as the late 1970s marine ornithologists have travelled each year to Gough Island in the South Atlantic to conduct research on its threatened populations of albatrosses and petrels. These trips have formed part of South Africa’s annual...
It is now well known that ACAP-listed albatrosses as well as burrowing petrels face fatal attacks on their chicks by House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, including on the Critically Endangered and near island-endemic Tristan...
A juvenile ACAP-listed and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena that was tracked at sea from 21 December 2013 when it fledged from Gough Island in the South Atlantic to 07 January 2015 travelled a total of 186 684 km, an average...
Ben Dilley ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) has filmed introduced House Mice Mus musculus attacking chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
All things must pass: the 54-month streak comes to an end In the 10 years since 2006 when the Agreement’s website went live, its news section, known as ACAP Latest News , has published a total of 2376 short articles. From June 2011 daily news items...
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the parlous state of Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic whose downy chicks are attacked and killed by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every year, leading to a low...
In December last year six fledgling Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena at Gough Island in the South Atlantic were fitted with satellite transmitters by field researchers Derren Fox and Chris Taylor. Two of these juvenile birds have now been tracked...
Richard Cuthbert ( RSPB Centre for Conservation Science , Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK ) and colleagues are publishing early this year in the Journal of Mammalogy o n aspects of the biology of the House Mice Mus musculus of...
Holly Jones ( Department of Biological Sciences , Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA) and a suite of colleagues have reviewed the conservation benefits from invasive mammal eradications on islands in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
A long-running research and conservation management project requires three people to work on Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months, with an additional month for training prior to departure. These contract positions are designed...
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...
