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...
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...
a vessel of this type (which visits Gough annually to relieve the South African weather station). Click here to read the gough mice feasibility study, produced by another ISI New Zealander, John Parkes . To read of current activities to eradicate...
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,...
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...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is endemic to the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Practically the whole species' population breeds on Gough Island (where it is seriously at...
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...
preference for Pestoff 20M and 20R, consuming a larger mass of bait. Estimated oral LD 50 values of brodifacoum for Gough mice were 0.44 mg kg -1 and the average timeto death following exposure was 5.5 days (range 0-16 days). Two mice (~1% of those...
Over the last few years, efforts to eradicate introduced rodents and other mammalian invaders from seabird islands have moved up yet another notch, in terms of complexity, island size, numbers of species to eradicate and island remoteness. Current...
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...
