The Mouse-Free Marion Project issues the second number of its quarterly newsletter

The Mouse-Free Marion Project is working towards the eradication of the island’s albatross-killing House Mice.  This week the project released the second issue of its quarterly newsletter (No. 2, July 2022), available from the MFM website here.

In the issue, the MFM Operations Manager Keith Springer writes a personal essay on how proper planning is key to ensuring a successful eradication operation.  The MFM Project Manager, Anton Wolfaardt explains the urgent need to ensure a mouse-free Marion Island. The newsletter also describes how the project marked last month’s World Albatross Day, which included co-publishing with ACAP an infographic for the Endangered Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca.  The albatross is threatened by Marion Island’s mice - as the infographic below depicts.

The MFM Project also produced a poster (see below) illustrated in the newsletter to mark WAD2022 that shows the four breeding albatrosses of Marion Island.  All are threatened by mice.

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John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 July 2022