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...
Mice are the only introduced mammal include New Zealand's Antipodes Island. To date, however, there are no reports of Antipodes mice affecting seabirds directly, although it has been shown they do impact the island's invertebrate fauna. A mouse-free...
restricted to these islands." Antipodean Albatrosses. Photograph by Derren Fox Although as yetthere are no reports of Antipodes mice attacking ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels directly on the Antipodes, as they do on Gough and Marion Islands, it is...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to raise sufficient non-governmental funds to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus of New Zealand's Antipodes Island has now reached over one-quarter of its target, with NZ 302 680 raised by 20 April. The...
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)....
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...
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...
This month six men will start to walk the last 97 miles to the South Pole that Ernest Shackleton failed to cover on his epic journey in 1909. The team is to include three wounded soldiers from Captain Oates' Regiment, now the Royal Dragoon Guards, who...
The bidding eventually stopped at NZ$ 4970 following an exciting flurry of bids that started from NZ$ 4120 in the last 20 minutes of "extra time" as the two remaining bidders battled it out NZ$ 10 at a time. Congratulations (and thanks) to the winner,...
Three new marine reserves around New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands will be created under the Subantarctic Islands Marine Reserves Bill , Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson announced earlier this month. The Bill has had its first reading in...
A personal challenge in 2012 has been to post a daily news item to ACAP Latest News . This story is the 365th of the year so the self-imposed daily streak* has been achieved. Now is a good time then to look back at the highlights of a years' worth of...
