The Royal Naval Bird Watching Society ( RNBWS ) has awarded a Captain Simpson Scholarship to establish a long-term demographic study of the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus (an ACAP-listed species) on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. The...
Tristan da Cunha (part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) in the South Atlantic has adopted an implementation plan for the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP). The plan has...
An international conference, entitled "island Invasives: Eradication and Management" was held on the Tamaki Campus of the University of Auckland, New Zealand from 8-12 February 2010. The conference was held under the auspices of the World Conservation...
A first list is provided of 11 higher degrees (Masters and Doctorates) awarded over the five-year period 2005-2009 for studies conducted on species of albatrosses and petrels listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. Please send details of...
In what is practically their only breeding site in the world, a census of incubating Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena was recently conducted as part of Gough Island's long-term population monitoring project. Gough, situated in the South Atlantic,...
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...
UPDATE: click here for more news on this story In a paper published in the July issue of Ibis , the International Journal of Avian Science, Geoff Hilton and Richard Cuthbert review the impacts of introduced mammalian predators on UK Overseas...
Writing in the second number of ISI News Allan Saunders and colleagues of New Zealand's Invasive Species International consider how best to forward the removal of alien mammals from oceanic islands. They conclude that the use of a dedicated "mother...
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...
An international team of nine marine ornithologists, island conservation managers and rope-access technicians (and ACAP's Information Officer) leaves Cape Town this afternoon on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , for Gough...
Enderby Island at 700 ha still remains the largest island from which the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus has definitely been removed - back in 1993. Enderby is part of New Zealand's Auckland Island group and supports a population of ACAP-listed...
Yet once more the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are having a very poor breeding year. Of an estimated 1826 incubating birds in early February 2010 only 406 chicks could be counted this and last month,...
Natural and unnatural predators of ACAP-listed species range from sharks (notably of Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatross fledglings in the North Pacific) to the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus of Tristan Albatross...
It must now be well known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena and several other seabird species that breed on Gough Island are deleteriously affected by attacks on their chicks by the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus . For news of how...
In 2007 I initiated a demographic study of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. In three chosen areas (Gonydale, the Hummocks and Tafelkop) all the occupied nests were staked during...
A long-running research and conservation management project requires two candidates to work on Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months, with an additional 1-2 months for training prior to departure. The two 15-month contract...
It is now surely well-known that the introduced House Mice of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are wreaking havoc amongst its birds up to the size of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena , whose chicks are...
Save Our Species (SOS) is a global coalition initiated by three founding partners (World Conservation Union - IUCN, the Global Environmental Facility and the World Bank) to build a large species conservation fund, supporting on-the-ground field...
Richard Cuthbert of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and colleagues report this month in the journal Wildlife Research on the susceptibility to poison bait of the "killer mice" of Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
