Suwarrow Blog One – Team arrives in the Cook Islands

Thursday, April 18, 2013

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Suwarrow Blog One – Team arrives in the Cook Islands

The first of many blogs from award-winning wildlife filmmaker Nick Hayward as he joins a team from BirdLife and Te Ipukarea Society (BirdLife in the Cook Islands) who are preparing spend a month eradicating rats from one of the remotest atolls in the South Pacific...

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Seabirds and rodents on Australia’s outlying islands

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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Seabirds and rodents on Australia’s outlying islands

Birds Australia has identified Macquarie Island as an IBA. Measures to reduce the number of introduced mammals on the island are crucial for seabird conservation...

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Keeping islands rat-free for pacific birds and people – with Elenoa Seniloli

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

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Keeping islands rat-free for pacific birds and people – with Elenoa Seniloli

Find out about BirdLife's ground-breaking programme with local communities to rid Pacific islands of invasive rats.

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The Magnificent Seven (rat free Fijian islands)

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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The Magnificent Seven (rat free Fijian islands)

Two years after the BirdLife International Fiji Programme implemented an operation to eradicate rats from the Ringgold Islands, all seven islands have been confirmed rodent-free. Early monitoring also shows that the birds, people and wider wildlife of these remote islands are already benefitting from the removal of these invasive pests...

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