. See also: http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/heard-mcdonald/index.html and http://www.heardisland.aq/ . Macquarie Island Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. Comprises Macquarie Island, Bishop and Clerk Islets, Judge and...
Wildlife Service & Biodiversity Conservation Branch] 2007. Plan for the Eradication of Rabbits and Rodents on Subantarctic Macquarie Island . [Hobart]: Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Tourism, Arts and the Environment & Biodiversity...
Eric(Eds) 2006. Heard Island : Southern Ocean Sentinel . Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons. 270 pp. ISBN 949324 98 1. Macquarie Island Greenslade, Penelope 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island . Kingston: Australian Antarctic Division. 344 pp....
ISBN 1 876 93408 5. http://www.heardisland.aq/protection/management_plan/index.html Maquarie Island Frost, Leslie 2006. Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and World Heritage Area Management Plan 2006 . Hobart: Parks and Wildlife Service, Department...
{mosimage} Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island supports seven species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. It also supports large populations of European Rabbits and two species of rodents, which are placing the island’s plant and animal life...
{mosimage} Australia’s Macquarie Island supports the smallest breeding population of the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans. A 2008 review recently published by Birds Australia ( http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/soab/state-of-australias-birds.html )...
Phoenix Islands at 184 000 km square. 4 = (To be) Prince Edward Islands at 180 000 kmsquare. 5 = Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island at 162 000 km square. See also http://www.panda.org.za/?section=News_LivingWaters&id=168 for news of WWF-South...
{mosimage} The second issue of the “Macquarie Dispatch”, newsletter of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project, has now been issued. Number two introduces the dog-training team (and some of their dogs) that will attempt to remove any remaining...
populations, telles que celles de l’albatros de Tristan da Cunha de l’Île Inaccessible, de l’albatros hurleur de l’île Macquarie et de l’albatros d’Amsterdam, les chiffres sont tellement bas (moins de 20 couples reproducteurs chaque année), qu’elles...
Currently, the only Australian island which supports both ACAP-listed species and introduced rodents is sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, forwhich a rodent (and rabbit) eradication project is in progress [ click here ], with the actual eradication...
World Heritage places through the Caring for our Country programme. A share of this sum will be spent on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, home to a number of ACAP-listed species. AU$7.4 million of the allocation will be invested over the next four years...
to read the latest news of Australia's efforts to eradicate introduced rabbits and rodents from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island - a breeding site for seven ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. The fourth issue (dated November 2009) of the project's...
at Southern Ocean islands that support threatened ACAP-listed species. Islands to be covered will include Australia's Macquarie Island, the United Kingdom's Tristan and Gough Islands, New Zealand's Campbell Island, the French sub-Antarctic islands in...
that lie north of the Subantarctic Front and yet fall into SCAR's area of interest include Ile Amsterdam, Ile St. Paul, Macquarie Island and Gough Island." Thus SCAR covers much of the breeding and at-sea ranges of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels....
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act of 1999. In 2007, 94 breeding pairs were reported for the Macquarie Island World Heritage Area, Australia's only breeding site for the species. The small colony is at increasing risk from erosion...
Inaccessible and Sea Lion Islands). Further, Australia is currently working towards registering Heard & McDonald and Macquarie with the Ramsar Convention. See earlier news stories at:...
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...
Albatrosses, also known as Antipodean Wandering Albatrosses, have been seen ashore away from their breeding island on Macquarie, Campbell and Chatham Islands, breeding in small numbers at the last two islands. However, this is the first record of one...
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 now commenced. On 21 May the Aurora Australis departed from Hobart, Tasmania for...
Despite poor weather hampering operations the poison-bait drop has commenced on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island in an endeavour to rid it of Black Rats, House Mice and European Rabbits ( click here for the latest news). Aerial baiting has...
