{mosimage} “Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project is about to get underway after a number of years of planning. Aerial baiting of the island is scheduled for June this year. The Aurora Australia is set to travel to the island from Hobart, Australia next...
The Macca bait drop has commenced. Go to http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=7288 The long-in-the-making plans to eradicate the alien terrestrial mammals of Australia's Macquarie Island have reached fruition and the actual eradication programme has...
Recent research on South Atlantic Gough Island is providing insight into the demographics of ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea . Threatened both by drowning on fishery longlines and depredation by introduced mammals, the conservation status...
The Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea is listed as endangered by the Tasmanian Threatened Species Act of 1995 and is considered to be globally Near Threatened . The species breeds on cool-temperate and sub-Antarctic islands during winter. Macquarie...
The ACAP-listed Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea is listed as endangered by the Tasmanian Threatened Species Act of 1995 and is considered to be globally Near Threatened . Grey Petrels were first recorded as breeding on Australia's Macquarie Island in...
Large and ambitious programmes are underway on two islands in the Southern Ocean to eradicate introduced rats, mice, rabbits and Reindeer in an attempt to conserve their indigenous species and restore their natural habitats. On Australia's...
The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 by Stephen Garnett, Judit Szabo and Guy Dutson is the third in a series of Australian action plans for birds that have been produced at the start of each decade. The new book, published in September 2011,...
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...
Sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean belongs to South Africa. It has been the site of ornithological research on seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, for over half a century. The following text is taken from the...
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...
Liz Wren ( Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service ) writing in the latest issue of the Australian Antarctic Magazine has good news on the situation on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island where the efforts to eradicate its introduced mammals continue to be on...
