Conservation of procellariiform seabirds will be featured at next week’s Island Invasives Conference in New Zealand

The Island Invasives 2026 Conference “Charting the Future”, the fourth in the series, will be held at the University of Auckland, New Zealand over 9-13 February 2026.  A selected list by author and title of presentations extracted from the conference book of abstracts follows.  It should be of particular interest to those who follow efforts to conserve procellariiform seabirds on invaded islands.

Oral Papers

Dayana Alva, Sebastián Lozano-Sanllehi, Diego Gonzales-DelCarpio, Cinthia Irigoin-Lovera, Brenda Gordillo, Isabella Díaz-Santibañez, Sara Wang, Michael Polito, Carlos Zavalaga: Assessing the relationship between house mouse relative abundance and Peruvian diving-petrel hatching success on Isla La Vieja, Peru

Anton Wolfaardt, Keith Springer, Sue Tonin: Saving Marion Island’s seabirds: The Mouse-Free Marion Project.  Advancing toward the eradication of house mice from a globally significant sub-Antarctic island

Sophie Thomas, Andrew Callender, Antje Steinfurth, Araceli Samaniego, Peter McClelland: Andrew Callender, Peter McClelland, Araceli Samaniego, Sophie Thomas: Building from failure: review, investigations and next steps towards eradicating mice from Gough Island: The attempted eradication of house mice (Mus musculus) from Gough Island and its immediate aftermath

Peter McClelland, Tane Davis: Eradications and biosecurity on the Titi islands southern New Zealand – empowering indigenous owners [Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea]

Al Glen, Joanna Carpenter, Paul Jacques, Rachael Sagar, Finlay Cox: Spatial and temporal variability in population parameters of island cats [Auckland Island]

Darryl Birch, Kristine Ward, Darcelle Matassoni: Eradications on inhabited islands.  Life after the rodent eradication project on Lord Howe Island, Australia

Sheri S. Mann, Patricia C Baiao, Joshua Atwood, Shane Siers, Mary Jo Mazurek, Alex Wegmann, Nick Holmes, Mele Khalsa, Pete McClelland, Clay Chow, Fia Moe, Dilek Sahin, Gregg Howald: The history of invasive species management and the conservation future of Lehua Island, Hawai’i

Stephen Horn, Finlay Cox, Rachael Sagar, Veronika Frank, Em Oyston, Jennifer Long: Building momentum: technical advances and planning implications for Maukahuka – pest free Auckland Island

Posters

Wesley Jolley, Jonathan Plissner, Elizabeth Flin, Jose Luis Herrera, Cielo Figuerola, Carmen Antaky, Pete McClelland, Chris Forster, Morgan Walter, Dan Rapp, Nick Holmes, Alex Wegmann, Jared Underwood: Midway seabird protection project: Overview and insights from an unsuccessful mouse eradication attempt

Finlay Cox, Rachael Sagar, Katie Ward-Allen, John Quigley, Jennifer Waite, Lyndsay Murray, Lynn Booth, Antoine Filion, Maddie Van De Wetering, Jennifer Rickett, Stephen Horn: Enabling island predator eradications with a readymade 1080 predator bait for New

Zealand [Auckland Island]

Access information on plenary speakers and associated workshops here.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 02 February 2026