Geoff Tuck ( CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research , Hobart, Australia) and colleagues have analysed the deleterious effects of tuna fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean on the populations of four albatross species, publishing their findings in open access...
After another successful management/research expedition to Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the combined Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town team returns to Cape Town, South Africa this week....
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross or Gony Diomedea dabbenena is endemic to the Tristan da Cunha island group in the South Atlantic, where it breeds on Gough and Inaccessible Islands, which together form a World Heritage Site. Practically the...
The 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ( ICCAT ) concluded on 19 November in Istanbul, Turkey ( click here for the press release). A key outcome from the meeting towards the improved conservation...
Bob Headland ( Scott Polar Research Institute , University of Cambridge, UK), writing in the journal Polar Record , has produced a descriptive historical account of the introduced mammals of southern high latitudes. The publication has a particular...
The papers and abstracts published in this proceedings volume are the outcome of an international conference on Island Invasives: Eradication and Management held at Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland , New Zealand from 8 to 12 February 2010. The...
In the past, from their first discovery, albatrosses have fallen victim to the stew pot or roasting fire, being generally considered good eating. Nowadays, however, it seems that the human consumption of albatrosses has died out as a habit - and no bad...
The Fifth Issue (December 2011) of the Henderson Island News brings the welcome information that the aerial bait drop in August last year to eradicate Polynesian Rats or Kiore Rattus exulans by the Henderson Island Restoration Project looks like it...
Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus exhibit marked sexual dimorphism. So much so that a study on Gough Island in the South Atlantic (the species' most northerly breeding population) found no overlap in culmen between males and females ( click...
The UK Environment Minister Richard Benyon announced funding of UK£250 000 towards a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) project to eradicate the introduced "killer" House Mice Mus musculus mice on Gough Island at a meeting of the UK...
Over 15-16 March BirdLife South Africa and the University of Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute hosted a conference " Frontiers in South African Ornithology " in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Four presentations were given that will be of interest...
The eradication of alien vertebrate species on oceanic islands is now an increasingly well-known and practiced conservation method. On islands around the world, in both hemispheres and in many seas and oceans, islands of successively increasing size...
The first Southern Ocean island from which the alien House Mouse Mus musculus has been eradicated was 700-ha Enderby Island in New Zealand's Auckland Island group. This 1993 effort was primarily directed at European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus . A...
Over the period 20-26 March 2012 Katrine Herian ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Project Officer working with the Tristan Conservation Department) and Lourens Malan visited Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha Group, travelling from...
The Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos is endemic to the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Islands in the South Atlantic where it is considered to have a conservation status of Endangered . The species breeds on all four...
The near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island suffers annually from fatal attacks on its chicks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus. Click here to watch a graphic video of one such night-time attack...
ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve albatrosses and petrels by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to their populations. ACAP came into force in February 2004 and currently has 13 memeber countries and...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to raise sufficient non-governmental funds to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand's Antipodes Island has now passed one-third of its target, with NZ$ 352 658 raised by 11 May (click here)....
Ross Wanless ( Seabird Division, BirdLife South Africa ) and colleagues have outlined the plight of yet another seabird species preyed upon by "killer mice" Mus musculus on UK's Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Writing on-line in the journal Animal...
Continuing the occasional series of articles on the role albatrosses and petrels have played in the arts, this time we look at music. Fleetwood Mac is a rock band that was formed in 1967 and is still going strong 45 years later, although there have...
