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title: "The Mouse-Free Marion Project issues the second number of its quarterly newsletter"
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# The Mouse-Free Marion Project issues the second number of its quarterly newsletter

![MFM NL No. 2](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2022/MFM_NL_No._2.png) 

 The [Mouse-Free Marion Project](https://mousefreemarion.org) is working towards the eradication of the island’s albatross-killing House Mice.  This week the project released the second issue of its quarterly newsletter (No. 2, July 2022), available from the MFM website [here](https://mousefreemarion.org/publications/).

 In the issue, the [MFM Operations Manager Keith Springer](https://mousefreemarion.org/macquarie-island-stalwart-keith-springer-appointed-mouse-free-marions-operations-manager/) writes a [personal essay](https://mousefreemarion.org/island-eradications-of-introduced-predators-can-be-game-changing-providing-the-planning-is-done-correctly/) on how proper planning is key to ensuring a successful eradication operation.  The [MFM Project Manager, Anton Wolfaardt](https://mousefreemarion.org/introducing-dr-anton-wolfaardt-project-manager-for-the-mouse-free-marion-project/) explains the urgent need to ensure a mouse-free Marion Island. The newsletter also describes how the project marked last month’s [World Albatross Day](https://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2022-climate-change), which included co-publishing with ACAP an [infographic](https://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day/species-summaries/species-infographics) for the [Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/sooty-albatross-phoebetria-fusca) Sooty Albatross *Phoebetria fusca*.  The albatross is threatened by Marion Island’s mice - as the infographic below depicts.

  ![Sooty Albatross infographic colour FINAL](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2022/Sooty_Albatross_infographic_colour_FINAL.jpg)

 The MFM Project also produced a poster (see below) illustrated in the newsletter to mark WAD2022 that shows the four breeding albatrosses of Marion Island.  All are threatened by mice.

 ![MFM WAD poster](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2022/MFM_WAD_poster.png)

 Join the [mailing list](https://mousefreemarion.org/contact/) to stay up to date on future news from the MFM Project.  It can also be followed on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Mouse-Free-Marion-1978098948867817) and Instagram.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 July 2022*