Three island groups, Tristan da Cunha, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)* and South Georgia (Islas Georgia del Sur)*, in the South Atlantic region are breeding range states for 12 of the 29 species currently listd by ACAP, three of which are breeding...
It must now be well known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena and several other seabird species that breed on Gough Island are deleteriously affected by attacks on their chicks by the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus . For news of how...
In 2007 I initiated a demographic study of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. In three chosen areas (Gonydale, the Hummocks and Tafelkop) all the occupied nests were staked during...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is endemic to the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Practically the whole species' population breeds on Gough Island (where it is seriously at...
It is with sadness that the Albatross and Petrel Agreement reports the passing of Michael John Imber, DSc of Levin, New Zealand on 28 April 2011 at the age of 70 years. Mike Imber had spent a career working with procellariiform seabirds and has...
A long-running research and conservation management project requires two candidates to work on Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months, with an additional 1-2 months for training prior to departure. The two 15-month contract...
It is now surely well-known that the introduced House Mice of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are wreaking havoc amongst its birds up to the size of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena , whose chicks are...
Save Our Species (SOS) is a global coalition initiated by three founding partners (World Conservation Union - IUCN, the Global Environmental Facility and the World Bank) to build a large species conservation fund, supporting on-the-ground field...
Whereas on-going efforts to rid seabird islands of introduced mammalian predators (such as cats and rats) are well known, efforts to eradicate or control alien plants on islands are generally not so well reported. However, plants introduced to islands...
Richard Cuthbert of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and colleagues report this month in the journal Wildlife Research on the susceptibility to poison bait of the "killer mice" of Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
The Tristan da Cunha islands, which include the Gough and Inaccessible Islands World Heritage Site , form part of a United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. The islands have been in the news this year because of the Oliva oiling...
An Endemic Bird Area ( EBA ) is defined by BirdLife International as an area which encompasses the overlapping breeding ranges of restricted-range species, such that the complete ranges of two or more restricted-range species are entirely included...
Albatrosses have appeared in many poems, probably most famously in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner , written in 1798. Lance Tickell in his book Albatrosses devotes 12 pages to the subject (Chapter 18: The Mariner Syndrome),...
Over the last few years, efforts to eradicate introduced rodents and other mammalian invaders from seabird islands have moved up yet another notch, in terms of complexity, island size, numbers of species to eradicate and island remoteness. Current...
Last week South Africa's Antarctic research and supply ship, the m.v. S.A. Agulhas , sailed from Cape Town on the annual relief of the South African weather station on the UK's Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The ship...
The latest issue of the islandNet Newsletter (No. 7, August 2011) carries a number of interesting stories over 26 pages that deal with the eradication of alien species on seabird islands around the World, including at Australia's sub-Antarctic...
With the support of a Captain Simpson Scholarship from the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society I commenced a demographic study of Southern Giant Petrels on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the species' most northerly breeding population in 2010 ( click...
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...
