Last week South Africa's Antarctic research and supply ship, the m.v. S.A. Agulhas , sailed from Cape Town on the annual relief of the South African weather station on the UK's Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The ship...
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...
Every year Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks on Gough Island are attacked and killed by introduced House Mice Mus musculus during winter months when in their early downy stage. As a consequence, breeding success is too low to support the...
New Zealand's Department of Conservation announced last month that the linked islands of Motutapu and Rangitoto in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland are now considered clear of nine alien mammal species, including the House Mouse Mus musculus , following...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our Far South is a Morgan Foundation project aimed at raising New Zealanders' awareness of the area south of Stewart Island. Its latest activity is the Million Dollar Mouse campaign which aims to raise that sum to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus...
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)....
to island fauna, and island restoration and management plans should routinely include eradication of introduced mice." A Gough House Mouse feeds upon the carcass of an Atlantic Petrel chick Photograph by Ross Wanless Reference: Wanless, R.M., Ratcliffe,...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign is now halfway to raising the one million New Zealand Dollars that will be required for the Department of Conservation to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Antipodes Island . Once the campaign target...
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic commences today with the brand-new Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on its maiden voyage to the island at 14h00...
It is now well-known that downy chicks of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses that breed on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are facing nightly onslaughts in winter months from "killer" House Mice that have been...
