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(Message started by: HKBWS Project on Jul 26^th, 2005, 11:06am)

Title: News from BirdLife International
Post by HKBWS Project on Jul 26^th, 2005, 11:06am

1. Supersize mice decimate island's seabirds

25-07-2005

Invasive, introduced house mice, three times the size of those in Europe, are devastating seabird populations on the remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic.

Gough Island is the most southerly of the Tristan da Cunha group (a UK Overseas Territory). There are 22 bird species nesting on the island of which 20 are seabirds. Dr Geoff Hilton, a Senior Research Biologist at the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) said, "Gough Island hosts an astonishing community of seabirds and this catastrophe could make many locally extinct within decades. We think there are about 700,000 mice, which have somehow adapted to eat chicks alive." ......

http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2005/07/gough_island.html

2. Environment "vital" in making African poverty history

25-07-2005

More than 40 African conservationists from 23 countries around the continent today stressed that environmental sustainability and natural resource management should play a vital role in current efforts to “make poverty history” on the continent.

Members of the BirdLife Africa Partnership reiterated the need for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Africa to be achieved by 2015 – especially Target 1 (to halve poverty by 2015) and Target 9 (to integrate the principles of sustainable development into country programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources). ......

http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2005/07/africa_mdgs.html