Archived News

The IslandNet Newsletter is published electronically by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, Australia's largest integrated invasive animal research programme.

Newsletter No. 6 of February 2011 reports on latest developments with the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project (poison baiting this year is to start in April).

Research towards removing introduced rodents from Muttonbird Island in New South Wales, home to Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus pacificus (a potential ACAP species), without harming an indigenous rat is reviewed.

Other stories give news of rodent eradications undertaken on or planned for seabird islands as far afield as Alaska (USA), Antigua, Mexico, New Zealand, the Seychelles and the United Kingdom's Henderson Island in the South Pacific.

"The Invasive Animals CRC concentrates on developing smarter tools to prevent and detect new invasions, advanced and tactical tools to strengthen integrated management strategies of carp and other pest fish, and new tools and integrated management strategies for major pests including foxes, wild dogs, feral pigs, rats and mice, cane toads, feral cats and rabbits."

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 1 March 2011