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title: "Help save albatrosses from a gruesome death: web developer required for South Africa’s Mouse Free Marion crowd-funding website"
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# Help save albatrosses from a gruesome death: web developer required for South Africa’s Mouse Free Marion crowd-funding website

[BirdLife South Africa](https://www.birdlife.org.za/) is fund raising for a long-term conservation project to eradicate introduced House Mice *Mus musculus* that attack and kill albatrosses and petrels on sub-Antarctic [Marion Island](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1371-acap-breeding-sites-no-27-sub-antarctic-marion-island-a-research-laboratory-for-albatrosses-and-petrels?highlight=WyJtYXJpb24iLCJtYXJpb24ncyIsIm5vIiwiJ25vIl0=)([click here](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3295-progress-with-the-marion-island-mouse-eradication-programme?highlight=WyJtYXJpb24iLCJtYXJpb24ncyIsIm1pY2UiLCJtaWNlJ3MiXQ==)).  Expressions of interest are required from suitably qualified web developers who can undertake updates to an existing [crowd-funding website](http://www.mousefreemarion.org.za) as well as maintain the site on a 12-month contract with opportunity for extension.

  ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/G/Grey_headed/Grey_headed_Albatross_mouse_wound_Fitztitute.jpg)

 This Grey-headed Albatross *Thalassarche chrysostoma* chick on Marion Island will not survive nocturnal attacks by mice

 Photograph from the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town

 To apply submit a short motivation, CV and quoted rates with contactable references to [Nini van der Merwe](mailto:nini.vdmerwe@birdlife.org.za) by 16h00 GMT+2 on Wednesday 31 July.  Consideration will be given to consultants from anywhere within South Africa, but preference will be given to those based in Cape Town, to facilitate regular interactions with BirdLife South Africa staff.

 Read more descriptive details of the position [here](https://www.birdlife.org.za/who-we-are/vacancies/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 23 July 2019*