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Dispositif de biosécurité inter-îles/îlots et de surveillance du milieu - Fiche de capitalisation - PROTEGE

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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PROE / SPREP

2025

Des dispositifs de biosécurité et de surveillance des milieux ont été définis et mis en œuvre entre les îles de Futuna et d’Alofi, ainsi qu’entre ‘Uvea et les îlots du lagon de Wallis. Ces dispositifs visent à prévenir la propagation d’espèces exotiques envahissantes (EEE), notamment pour pérenniser les bénéfices des actions d’éradication et de restauration menées dans le cadre du projet. Leur mise en œuvre a donné lieu à de nombreuses actions de sensibilisation et de formation, visant à encourager l’adoption de gestes de prévention. La formation des services techniques et la fourniture d’équipements ont également permis de déployer un dispositif de suivi qui a déjà démontré des résultats concrets, notamment en identifiant une incursion de rats dans deux îlots de Wallis. L’action rapide qui a suivi cette identification a permis d’éviter la ré-invasion des rats, démontrant la forte complémentarité des actions menées dans le projet. FICHE FINALE DE CAPITALISATION DU PROJET PROTEGE, financé par l'Union Européenne.

House mice on islands: management and lessons from New Zealand

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Birmingham,C.

Broome, K.

Brown, D.

Brown, K.

Corson, P.

Cox, A.

Golding, C.

Griffiths, R.

Murphy, E.

2019

The impacts of house mice (Mus musculus), one of four invasive rodent species in New Zealand, are only clearly revealed on islands and fenced sanctuaries without rats and other invasive predators which suppress mouse populations, influence their behaviour, and confound their impacts. When the sole invasive mammal on islands, mice can reach high densities and influence ecosystems in similar ways to rats. Eradicating mice from islands is not as difficult as previously thought, if best practice techniques developed and refined in New Zealand are applied in association with diligent planning and implementation. Adopting this best practice approach has resulted in successful eradication of mice from several islands in New Zealand and elsewhere including some of the largest ever targeted for mice; in multi-species eradications; and where mouse populations were still expanding after recent invasion. Prevention of mice reaching rodent-free islands remains an ongoing challenge as they are inveterate stowaways, potentially better swimmers than currently thought, and prolific breeders in predator-free habitat. However, emergent mouse populations can be detected with conventional surveillance tools and eradicated before becoming fully established if decisive action is taken early enough. The invasion and eventual eradication of mice on Maud Island provides a case study to illustrate New Zealand-based lessons around mouse biosecurity and eradication.

Zero-tolerance biosecurity protects high-conservation-value island nature reserve.

BRB

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Scott,John K. McKirdy, Simon J. van der Merwe, Johann Green, Roy Burbidge, Andrew A. Pickles, Greg Hardie,Darryl C. Morris, Keith Kendrick, Peter G. Thomas, Melissa L. Horton, Kristin L. OConner, Simon Downs, Justin Stoklosa, Richard Lagdon, Russell Marks, Barbara Naim, Malcolm Mengersen, Kerrie

2017

Barrow Island, north-west coast of Australia, is one of the worlds significant conservation areas, harboring marsupials that have become extinct or threatened on mainland Australia as well as a rich diversity of plants and animals, some endemic. Access to construct a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant, Australias largest infrastructure development, on the island was conditional on no non-indigenous species (NIS) becoming established. We developed a comprehensive biosecurity system to protect the islands biodiversity. From 2009 to 2015 more than 0.5 million passengers and 12.2 million tonnes of freight were transported to the island under the biosecurity system, requiring 1.5 million hrs of inspections. No establishments of NIS were detected. We made four observations that will assist development of biosecurity systems. Firstly, the frequency of detections of organisms corresponded best to a mixture log-normal distribution including the high number of zero inspections and extreme values involving rare incursions. Secondly, comprehensive knowledge of the islands biota allowed estimation of false positive detections (62% native species). Thirdly, detections at the border did not predict incursions on the island. Fourthly, the workforce detected more than half post-border incursions (59%). Similar approaches can and should be implemented for all areas of significant conservation value.