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...
Unfortunately, H89 has died. Its body is to be brought to Cape Town for autopsy. ******************* Tshikana Rasehlomi, BirdLife International Albatross Task Force Instructor, reports via satellite ‘phone from a South African tuna longline vessel 100...
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...
In November last year the UK Environment Minister Richard Benyon announced funding of UK£30 000 towards a BirdLife International project to undertake at-sea trials of hook pods in South Africa to reduce seabird bycatch in pelagic long-line fisheries,...
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...
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 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...
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...
The Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International publishes an annual newsletter entitled SeaChange that includes short articles on its activities in helping save seabirds around the World. The latest 12-page issue of SeaChange ( Number 8 , for...
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...
A contingent of six marine ornithologists (John Cooper, Robert Crawford, Bruce Dyer, Genevieve Jones, Azwianewi Makhado and Ross Wanless) from South Africa attended the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand...
