Mukojima Island in the Japanese Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands supports breeding colonies of genetically distinct Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and of Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses. It is also the site of ongoing attempts to establish a new colony...
The latest newsletter of the South Georgia* Habitat Restoration Project ( No. 4, February 2011 ) gives the news that the two poison bait-dropping helicopters required for Phase One of the project arrived on the South Atlantic island this month on the...
Issue 7 of Project News , the Newsletter of the Habitat Restoration Project of the South Georgia* Heritage Trust , reveals there have been no reports of rats or rat sign up to the end of May in the vicinity of the buildings at King Edward Point, within...
Thirty-hectare Grass Island lies within Stromness Bay, approximately 350 m from the nearest rat-infested mainland area at Tonsberg Point, South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic. The island is ice-free and entirely vegetated. The...
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus pacificus have been identified as a potential candidate species for listing within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Their conservation status on three islands at two widely-separated...
Henderson Island is a World Heritage Site in the South Pacific, part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Pitcairn. Last year an aerial poison bait drop by helicopter aimed to eradicate the island's Polynesian Rats or Kiore Rattus exulans....
News is in on four ongoing eradication efforts to remove introduced mammals from islands in the Southern Ocean Antipodes Island The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to eradicate House Mice from New Zealand's Antipodes Island is approaching halfway with...
