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  Submission of Abstracts is now CLOSED Island Arks Symposium VII Phillip Island, September 2022   Call for abstracts We were excited by the number of Abstracts received for the 2021 Symposi

    Norfolk Island National Park Natural Resource Manger Abi Smith and friend modelling the new bird bands It has been a stellar start to 2015 for Australia’s third most endangered parrot wi

Black Rats were eradicated from Rat Island 22 years ago and feral cats ultimately about 12 years ago. Seabird return was first observed in 2003 and has accelerated significantly in the last two years.

In the southern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of South America, the few inhabitants of South Georgia Island are saying goodbye to some unwelcome visitors: Norway Brown rats. At 80,000ha South Georgia

It’s been just three days since Stephen Wore, Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, published his article Climate change wiped out Australia’s megafauna on popular commentary and d

Are there foxes in Tasmania? The answer to that question is a point of contention in the island state. European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are an invasive species that could severely damage the biodive

The Australian reported on the rise of Adelie Penguins on Beaufort Island thanks to climate change on 22 March. On the same day, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) f

Guest post from Dr Ray Nias, Island Conservation Southwest Pacific Regional Director. The ongoing decline of biodiversity on Norfolk Island dramatically exemplifies a central weakness in the current a

Does the conservation and protection of Australia’s iconic coastal landscapes matter? Islands make up almost 40% of Australia’s coastline. The length of coastline formed by Australia’s islands, is lon

The US Department of Agriculture will soon be deploying dead mice injected with poison to the Anderson Air Force Base. The poison, a sedative, is deadly to Guam’s brown tree snake. The snake, known to