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title: "Conservation Conversations: describing research on seabirds on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island"
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# Conservation Conversations: describing research on seabirds on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island

![Stefan Schoombie Wandering Albatross 7](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Stefan_Schoombie_Wandering_Albatross_7.JPG)   
*A Wandering Albatross pair interacts near the weather station on Marion Island, photograph by Stefan Schoombie*

 [BirdLife South Africa](https://www.birdlife.org.za/)'s weekly webinar series ‘[Conservation Conversations](https://www.birdlife.org.za/blsa-conversations/)’ last week hosted [Tegan Carpenter-Kling](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tegan-Carpenter-Kling) and [Stefan Schoombie](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/4174-featuring-acap-listed-species-and-their-photographers-the-sooty-albatross-by-stefan-schoombie?highlight=WyJzdGVmYW4iLCJzdGVmYW4ncyJd) who shared their experiences of living and working on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic [Marion Island](https://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1371-acap-breeding-sites-no-27-sub-antarctic-marion-island-a-research-laboratory-for-albatrosses-and-petrels) in the southern Indian Ocean.  Their illustrated talks describe some of the research towards their PhDs they undertook on the island’s seabirds, including on the ACAP-listed albatrosses and giant petrels that are at risk to introduced House Mice.

 *Conservation Conversations: Tegan Carpenter-Kling and Stefan Schoombie - Seabirds on Marion Island*

 The [Mouse-Free Marion Project](https://mousefreemarion.org/) aims to eradicate the island’s seabird-killing mice in 2024, thus allowing the albatrosses and giant petrels described in the talks to breed unhindered by a terrestrial predator once more.

 *John Cooper, ACAP *I*nformation Officer, 26 November 2021*