Island and Predator News:
Jobs have been updated as of December 1, 2008, with a new posting for Project Coordinator for the Pacific Invasives Initiative.
Mark your calendars! Information about the 2009 meeting in Washington State has been added. Click here for more information.
Conferences: Two new conferences have been announced in February 2010: Ecology of Insular Biotas II, held in Wellington, New Zealand from 1-5 February, 2010. Also, Island Invasives: Eradication and Management will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 8-12 February, 2010. Download information here (.pdf) and book your tickets to New Zealand!
New website section:We've added a Literature section where we'll be adding relevant literature as it comes up. We often can't post .pdfs (due to copyright restrictions) but will provide citations and contact info for authors, who often can distribute .pdfs.
Conferences: The First World Seabird Conference will take place on 7-11 September 2010 at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The conference will be hosted by the Pacific Seabird Group. More information about the conference is available in the first announcement (.pdf download).
Peru guards its seabird guano supplies as prices for synthetic fertilizers soar [New York Times].
The public meeting, originally scheduled for May 19 at the Shoals Marine Laboratory Creek Farm, has been postponed. It will now be held on August 12, 2008 as part of the Gulf of Maine Seabird Working Group at the Maine Audobon camp on Hog Island in Bremen, Maine. More details to follow...
The awardees for the 2008 Junior Scientist Exchange Program have been chosen! Meet the winners.
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Several SEAPRE partners have a paper published in the February 2008 issue of Conservation Biology entitled "Severity of the Effects of Invasive Rats on Seabirds: A Global Review". Email Holly Jones if you'd like a .pdf of this review. National Geographic News also covers this paper in an online article entitled "Rat Invasions Causing Seabird Decline Worldwide [National Geographic News]. |
Science writer Hugh Powell shares his thoughts on a recent Ecology Letters paper authored by several SEAPRE partners [Surf. Bird. Scribble].
National Geographic News explains the rat invasion history and future extirpation on Alaska's Rat Island, in the Aleutians [National Geographic News].
Rats to be eradicated from Fiji's Ringgold Isles for the benefit of seabird breeding [Bird Life International].
Podcast audio program: Removing invasive predators from seabird breeding colonies "could save more seabirds for less cost than reductions in fishing" from SEAPRE partner Dr. Chris Wilcox of CSIRO (Australia) [CSIROPOD].
Scientist (and SEAPRE partner) James Russell is interviewed about radio-tracking a clever, swimming invasive rat in New Zealand. [NPR's All Things Considered, 23 October 2005].
