On Marion Island, located in the Southern Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa, introduced house mice are endangering the long-term survival of seabirds and other native species. In response, the Mouse-Free Marion Project proposes an ambitious plan to distribute rodenticide bait from underslung bait buckets on helicopters in overlapping swathes across the entire 30,000-hectare island. Their goal is … Read More
Farallon Islands House Mouse Removal Video – 2021
In October 2021, a grant from the Farallon Islands Foundation to Point Blue provided support for an educational video on the benefits of eradicating the invasive house mouse from the South Farallon Islands. The video supports the efforts of 17 years of study and planning by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Point Blue as their proposed project to … Read More