At its 40th Session held in Istanbul, Turkey this month the Committee of the World Heritage Convention considered the plight of Gough Island (part of a World Heritage Site ) and its seabirds, including the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan...
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Conservation Scientist to join the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) team working on marine protected areas (MPAs) in the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs). “The...
The Operations Advisor for the Gough Island Restoration Programme , Keith Springer, is currently on Gough Island. The programme aims to eradicate the island’s “killer” House Mice Mus musculus that are killing many of the island’s seabirds by aerial...
The Operations Advisor for the Gough Island Restoration Programme , New Zealander Keith Springer, returned from a visit to Gough Island earlier this month when ACAP Latest News met up with him in a Cape Town Korean restaurant. Keith has reported on his...
Applications are invited from previously disadvantaged South African citizens for the above full-time MSc research scholarship at the University of Cape Town’s Percy FitzPatrick Institute , a world-renowned, national Centre of Excellence (CoE) in...
The United Kingdom’s Minister of State in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Right Honourable Sir Alan Duncan, MP , has announced significant increases in the UK's Overseas Territory Marine Protected Area coverage with new MPAs to be declared...
The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) is working towards the eradication of “killer” House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island, where they have been reducing breeding success of near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan...
A Senior Research Assistant and two Research Assistants are once again required for island restoration work on Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, a World Heritage Site. Fieldwork will include demographic monitoring of the Critically Endangered...
Norbert Theodor Wilhelm Klages (3 July 1952 to 30 January 2017) was a seabird diet specialist in the mode of the late Mike Imber of New Zealand. Working with colleagues in South Africa and then in Australia he received (or collected his own) stomach...
Stefan Schoombie ( FitzPatrick Institute , University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) and colleagues have published in the journal Emu - Austral Ornithology on tracking Endangered Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca at sea. The paper’s abstract...
Michael Brooke ( Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge , UK) and colleagues have published in the journal Animal Conservation on the fortunes of 181 island seabird populations of 69 species following successful eradication of invasive mammals....
Southern Africa, generally well covered by books on particular groups of birds, now has a seabird book to fill a notable gap and join the existing books on game birds, water birds and raptors. Guide to Seabirds of Southern Africa by Peter Ryan,...
The globally Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Abatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos breeds only on the Tristan-Gough islands in the South Atlantic, part of the UK’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. A helicopter-borne...
Dominic Rollinson ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute , University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) has reported in the on-line and open-access (but not peer-reviewed) publication Biodiversity Observations on five Critically Endangered Tristan...
BirdLife International ’s Seabird Tracking Data Base “Tracking Ocean Wanderers” has since initiation in 2003 following a workshop in South Africa reached 10 million records from over 120 research bodies covering 131 species of which 66 are...
Maria Dias ( BirdLife International , David Attenborough Building, Cambridge, UK) and colleagues have published in the journal Biological Conservation on using seabirds tracked at sea in the South Atlantic to identify “priority sites for marine...
Tim Doherty ( Centre for Integrative Ecology , Deakin University, Geelong, Australia;) and colleagues published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America on a global analysis of the effects of...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) announced last week that the long-awaited attempt to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic is set to take place in 2019 ( click here )....
I read Richard Cuthbert’s recently published book on the globally Endangered Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni by head torch over two nights in field huts on New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island while tramping the Aotea Track last month after...
The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is a globally Critical Endangered species that is at risk of extinction due to the combined effects of longline mortality and chick mortality leading to low breeding success on Gough Island , its main breeding...
