The latest issue of the islandNet Newsletter (No. 7, August 2011) carries a number of interesting stories over 26 pages that deal with the eradication of alien species on seabird islands around the World, including at Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and on islands in the South Atlantic where ACAP-listed species of albatrosses and petrels breed.

Go to http://www.feral.org.au/islandnet/newsletter to read this and earlier issues.  The final newsletter will be due out in February 2012.  If you would like to contribute to it, contact Elaine Murphy (Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.) or Wendy Henderson (Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.).

Rob Ronconi holds a barely-alive Tristan Albatross chick attacked by House Mice on Gough Island in 2009
Photograph by Peter Ryan

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 15 September 2011