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title: "The latest issue of the Mouse-Free Marion Quarterly Newsletter has been released"
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# The latest issue of the Mouse-Free Marion Quarterly Newsletter has been released

![Mouse Free Marion Newsletter No. 9 cover](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/Mouse-Free_Marion_Newsletter_No._9_cover.jpg)  
The Mouse-Free Marion ([MFM](https://mousefreemarion.org/)) Project is a non-profit company registered in South Africa and established to eradicate the invasive albatross-killing House Mice *Mus musculus* on Marion Island in the Southern Ocean.  The project was initiated by [BirdLife South Africa](https://www.acap.aq/about:blank) and the South African [Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment](https://www.acap.aq/about:blank).  “Upon successful completion, the project will restore the critical breeding habitat of over two million seabirds, many globally threatened, and improve the island’s resilience to a warming climate”.

 The latest issue ([No. 9 of April 2024](https://mousefreemarion.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mouse-Free-Marion-Project_Quarterly-Newsletter_Issue-9_April-2024-1.pdf)) of the project’s quarterly newsletter has been released. Following on from a Welcome editorial by Robyn Adams, MFM Communications Officer and Project Assistant, the newsletter gives information of the MFM Project’s recent activities under the heads:

 
- Out of office at Marion Island. The MFM Project Manager and new MFM Project overwintering team member head to Marion Island as part of the annual relief voyage.
- Planning for success: The Mouse-Free Marion Project brings together experts at a Mouse-Eradication Workshop.
- MFM Patron, Peter Harrison MBE, visits the Mouse-Free Marion Project’s Cape Town office.

 **![Wanderer chick after attack 21.06.2023 Michelle Risi 2](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Wandering/Wanderer_chick_after_attack_21.06.2023_Michelle_Risi_2.jpg)  
This* *[Vulnerable](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/wandering-albatross-diomedea-exulans) Wandering Albatross**Diomedea exulans*chick *has been attacked by mice on Marion Island;* it did not survive, 21 June 2023, photograph by Michelle Risi*

 [Previous issues](https://mousefreemarion.org/newsletters/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1X4e49sXV6vMGdHBe2EBmNrcppeelW6AR8vAIIcxoBItdah6rEGDl-vXY_aem_AfMERSeZrpWkHyJsF2gY77EgoB-gAW3Ik8k-VEKZwN3sImro4AvanXcwAbhqv69SSNtIJ8BB9xPQZP6l105j57B0) of the newsletter may be found on the project’s website.

 With thanks to Robyn Adams, MFM Communications Officer and Project Assistant.

 *Jo**hn Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 25 April 2024*