in an attempt to conserve their indigenous species and restore their natural habitats. On Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island in the southern Pacific the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) is proceeding well since the big poison...
within Australia, including within its Exclusive Economic Zone and the sub-Antarctic island groups of Heard & McDonald and Macquarie. The six threatened ACAP-listed species that breed within Australia have their breeding sites marked on the maps by red...
43 pages. Citations go up to 2010. I tested coverage of Southern Ocean islands by searching the index for Campbell, Gough, Macquarie and Marion Islands: all places where important eradication exercises have been carried out or are planned. Campbell gets...
in removing its rabbits and the Black Rat Rattus rattus . Current attempts and plans to eradicate introduced mammals on Macquarie Island and South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* are primarily directed at rats (both islands), rabbits (Macquarie) and...
According to the Australian Antarctic Division 's " This Week at Macquarie " on-line newsletter, all six pairs of Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans breeding this year on the island have hatched their eggs. This is good news for what is the...
The Macquarie Island fishery for Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides in the Southern Ocean is currently under assessment by the certification body, Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), for the Marine Stewardship Council ( MSC ). The...
population is thought to be the six pairs of Wandering Albatrosses D. exulans that are currently breeding on Australia's Macquarie Island ( click here ). The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross is endemic to the Tristan Group, with the main...
Last year Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island was treated with poison bait to eradicate its Black Rats Rattus rattus , House Mice M us musculus and European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus - all introduced aliens. Since then a team of hunters with...
with seabirds. Buller's Albatrosses interact with New Zealand fisheries Photograph by Chris Golding In addition, the Macquarie Island Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides fishery (in FAO Statistical Area 81) has also been certified by the MSC...
still required to meet the target to enable the attempt to go ahead next year. Nine mice are now Xed out, eleven to go! Macquarie Island So far no rabbits have been reported on Australia Macquarie Island since November following the winter poison bait...
One Small Island , which describes the history of the introduction, effects and eradication of introduced mammals on Macquarie Island in an attractively put-together book. The successful removal of cats and the current Macquarie Island Pest Eradication...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) continues to proceed on track. No signs of introduced European Rabbits have been seen all this year, as shown by the following extract from the latest Macquarie Dispatch , the project's newsletter...
of albatrosses and petrels, including South Africa's Prince Edward Islands, Australia's Heard and MacDonald Islands and Macquarie Island and New Zealand's Auckland Islands. In the North Pacific the USA's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument around...
and titles of six Aussie oral and poster presentations at IAPC5 are listed below. Rachael Alderman & Rosemary Gales: Macquarie Island's giant petrels and the impacts of the pest eradication program. O38. Rachael Alderman & Rosemary Gales: The Shy...
contrast ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea (and other burrowing species) appear to be doing well on Australia's Macquarie Island in the absence of cats and (it is hoped) rodents and rabbits following eradication efforts in the last few years...
the data base for islands that support ACAP-listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters I first searched for Australia's Macquarie Island and read that feral cats were eradicated in 2000, that eradication of rabbits is in progress and of rodents is...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) continues on its successful way with no European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus seen for nearly a year now - save for one of the dogs finding a "very old mummified" rabbit last month: "October was...
Antarctic Toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni in the Ross Sea and for Patagonian Toothfish D. eleginoides around Australia's Macquarie Island and Heard & McDonald Islands and in the waters of South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)*( click here ). Two more...
Field workers on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island have come across two Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria palpebrata that were banded in 1971 as adults, so they are estimated to be at least 45 years old. The news comes from...
alien eradication programmes on sub-Antarctic islands. In the south Pacific it seems increasingly likely that Australia's Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) will succeed in ridding the island of its introduced rabbits and rodents . In...
