{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was recently upgraded to Critically Endangered, due to the double blow of fishing mortality to birds at sea (mainly on long-lines) and House Mouse predation on chicks at its sole significant breeding...
It is now well known that the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic's Tristan da Cunha Group, is driving the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena towards extinction - by active...
The 5th issue, dated August 2009, of Sea Change , Newsletter of the BirdLife Global Seabird Programme, has been published The newsletter reports on the Albatross Task Force, now active in seven southern hemisphere countries, the Critically Endangered...
A multi-national expedition departs today on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , from Cape Town to continue conservation research on ACAP-listed species in the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group. Nearly three weeks will...
In March 2008 the United Kingdom appointed Dr Anton Wolfaardt as its first ACAP Officer, to address issues relating to the conservation of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels in the South Atlantic. Anton is based within the UK's Joint Nature...
Gough and Inaccessible are two island nature reserves in the mid South Atlantic that are part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Together they form a single World Heritage Site. Most recently they...
It is now well-known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are facing a double onslaught from longline mortality at sea and from chick predation by introduced House Mice on land. A measure of breeding production for the whole...
At any time, a number of procellariiform seabirds (albatrosses and petrels) are flying the World's oceans carrying tracking devices, either satellite transmitters or loggers. Some of these birds are of ACAP-listed species. At www.wildlifetracking.org...
In 1982 on my first visit to Gough Island, part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, I marked a number of nests of the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos and banded...
With support from Ovenstone's fishing vessel, Edinburgh , Dr Anton Wolfaardt, United Kingdom's ACAP Officer, took the opportunity at the end of his September liaison visit to Tristan da Cunha and its Conservation and Fisheries Departments to visit...
With attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus killing a large proportion of Tristan Albatross chicks Diomedea dabbenena (and Atlantic Petrel chicks Pterodroma incerta ), it is pleasing to report that the population of at least one ACAP-listed...
Peter Ryan (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Rob Ronconi (Dalhousie University, Canada) were successfully landed on uninhabited Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic from South Africa's Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas during the...
Gough and Inaccessible Islands in the South Atlantic form part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Together the two island nature reserves (including their 12-nautical mile territorial...
On 15 October, the third workshop in a series of four was held to develop a management plan for the Gough and Inaccessible Islands World Heritage Site. The Site is part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has published in its RSPB Research Report series a monitoring manual for birds and seals, including ACAP-listed albatrosses, at Tristan da Cunha and Nightingale Islands in the South Atlantic. The...
Click here to view the programme and titles and authors of both oral and poster papers to be presented at the conference ( http://www.cbb.org.nz/conferences.asp ). A number of papers will deal with ongoing or planned eradication efforts directed at...
Peter Ryan (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Rob Ronconi (Dalhousie University, Canada) returned last week from a 60-day sojourn on uninhabited Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic ( click here and here for...
A paper published on-line in 2009 and in the February 2010 issue of the journal Antarctic Science by researchers at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa has shown that it is not only Gough Island in the South Atlantic...
Graham Parker and Kalinka Rexer-Huber, originally from New Zealand, are spending a year on Gough Island in the South Atlantic conducting research towards the eventual eradication of the introduced House Mouse - which notoriously attacks Tristan...
South African research on ACAP-listed species is primarily carried out at two island groups, South Africa's Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research...
