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From small Maria to massive Campbell: forty years of rat eradications from New Zealand islands

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Broome, Keith G

Towns, David R

Over the last four decades the eradication of rats from islands around New Zealand has moved from accidental eradication following the exploratory use of baits for rat control to carefully planned complex eradications of rats and cats (Feliscatus) on large islands.

Prognosis for ecosystem recovery following rodent eradication and seabird restoration in an island archipelago.

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Holly P. JonES

Invasive species are widespread and can have devastating effects on biota, especially insular biota. Invasive species eradications are increasingly employed to promote island recovery to preinvasion states. However, it remains unclear if additional restoration actions may be required on islands that were once heavily reliant on seabird guano for ecosystem functions. Active seabird augmentation has been suggested as necessary to exact ecosystem recovery on contemporary timescales in some cases. I use two experiments on offshore islands in Cook Strait, New Zealand, to test the hypothesis that seabird restoration will restore island ecosystem functioning following invasive rodent removal. The first is a small-scale single-island fertilization experiment that simulates seabird recovery.

Proceedings of the Helping Islands Adapt Workshop on regional action to combat invasive species on islands to preserve biodiversity and adapt to climate change, 11-16 April, 2010, Auckland, New Zealand

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Sheppard, Brian

Singleton-Cambage, Krista

The Helping Islands Adapt workshop was held in Auckland, New Zealand between the 11th and 16th of April 2010 to support regional action against invasive species on islands, in order to preserve biodiversity and adapt to climate change. It arose from decisions under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) relating to invasive alien species and island biodiversity, and was hosted by the Government of New Zealand with support from a number of partner organisations and countries. The workshop focused on four major island regions: the Caribbean, Coral Triangle, Indian Ocean and Pacific, and involved participation by 82 people from 24 countries and territories, and 29 national, regional and international organisations (see participants list in Appendix 5). The workshop was specifically designed to allow for the maximum exchange of experience and support between representatives from diverse island regions working in invasive species management. It also included a field inspection of one of the Department of Conservations invasive species management projects on Rangitoto Island in Aucklands Hauraki Gulf. The workshop built on efforts under the Cooperative Islands Initiative, a partnership launched at the World Summit for Sustainable Development and the CBD 6th Conference of the Parties in 2002. Its intended outputs had been agreed by the organisers steering committee and set out as a 'road map that was used to ensure clarity of the workshops intended purpose, outputs and outcomes. An overview of the workshop, its sponsors, participants and conclusions was developed during the workshop and submitted to the 14th ?Subsidiary Body on Scientific Technical and Technological Advice (SBSSTA 14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nairobi 10-21 May 2010. That report is provided in full in Appendix 5 to these proceedings.

Climate change and Invasive species in the Pacific, [paper presented at] a workshop on regional action to combat Invasive species on Islands to preserve biodiversity and adapt to climate change, 11-16 April, 2010, Hyatt Regency Auckland, New Zealand

Climate Change Resilience, BRB

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Pacific Invasive Species Partnership

Pacific island nations are already experiencing the effects of a changing climate. Cyclones and severe flooding have hit Yap, Niue and Fiji recently. Air temperature, the number of cyclones and sea level are all predicted to rise, and changes in rainfall are also predicted across the Pacific (1). Forces driving climate change are beyond the control of island nations. Pacific islands, while constituting 0.12 per cent of the worlds population, release only 0.003 per cent of the worlds carbon dioxide from fuel combustion (2) . Adaptation to climate change should now be the focus of Pacific Island nations. The most practical climate-change adaptation action is to improve ecosystem resilience and focus on sustainable development.

Access and Benefit-Sharing Regional Consultations for the Pacific Region Auckland, New Zealand, 15th and 16th February 2010 : final report

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UNEP/CBD/ ABSRC-PAC-01-02

The Access and Benefit-Sharing Regional Consultation for the Pacific regional countries was organized from 15 to 16 February 2010 in Auckland with the financial support of UNEP, through the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), in close collaboration with the CBD Secretariat, and in consultation with the Co-Chairs of WG-ABS.

Digitisation standard: Archives New Zealand

Biodiversity Conservation

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Government Recordkeeping Group

This Standard is for use in the design and conduct of responsible digitisation by all organisations which are covered by the Public Records Act 2005. Meeting the mandatory requirements of this Standard will enable public offices and local authorities to meet their legislative obligations and dispose of original source records after digitisation. This applies to records where the business action takes place on the digitised record, rather than on the non-digital original source record. Public offices may then implement the General Disposal Authority: Digitised Original Source Records. The Standard sets out the criteria that will allow local authorities to be confident that they have met the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002 and dispose of the original source protected records.

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New Zealand's Fourth National Report to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

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Government of New Zealand

New Zealand is an island state with unique indigenous biodiversity. Typical of and island, much of New Zealand's indigenous biodiversity is highly endemic, with small, self-sustaining, site-specific populations. Due to these characteristics, populations are susceptible to extinction as a result of catastrophic one-off events or ongoing pressures, which include predation by introduced pests and diseases.

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Current state of knowledge of Cetacean threats, diversity and habitats in the Pacific islands region : 2009 revision [presented at] Second meeting of the signatories Auckland, New Zealand, 28-29 July 2009

Biodiversity Conservation

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Miller Cara

This report provides a review of the current state of knowledge of cetacean diversity, habitat and threats in the Pacific Islands Region. The boundaries of the Pacific Islands Region, as defined by the Convention of Migratory Species (CMS) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region (CMS 2006), are the marine areas under the jurisdiction of each Country or Territory of the Pacific Islands Region, and extend to the area defined by the Noumea Convention, i.e., between the Tropic of Cancer and 60° South latitude, and between 130° East longitude and 120° West longitude. The region stretches over some 10,000 kilometres from east to west and 5,000 kilometres from north to south, with a combined economic exclusion zone (EEZ) of approximately 30 million km².

Oceania humpback whale recovery plan discussion paper [presented at] Second meeting of the signatories, Auckland, New Zealand, 26-29 July 2009

Biodiversity Conservation

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UNEP

In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reviewed the conservation status of cetacean populations worldwide. As a consequence of this review, the Oceania population of humpback whales has been re-classified from Threatened to Endangered. This is in recognition that, although humpback whales in many parts of the world are showing encouraging signs of recovery from whaling, most of the small breeding populations in the South Pacific remain at extremely low levels and some remain vulnerable to extinction. The Oceania region encompassed over 9,008,458 km² of ocean, 14 countries and 16 territories spread over both the South and North Pacific Oceans. However, for the purposed of this plan, the planning boundaries are proposed to be delineated by the known breeding range of the Southern Hemisphere humpback whale breading stocks which were reclassified to Endnagered recently by the IUCN (that is Breeding StocksE(ii & iii) and F (i & ii)) and cover the Exclusive Economic Zones which fall within this boundary.

Report of the annual meeting of the South Pacific whale research consortium, 9th February - 12th February 2009, Auckland, New Zealand

Biodiversity Conservation

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South Pacific Whale Reseach Consortium

Members of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium met at the University of Auckland from 8-12 February, 2009 to discuss (i) the results of fieldwork and analysis conducted during 2008 and, (ii) conservation initiatives in the region. As with previous synoptic surveys dating back to the austral winter of 1999, surveys of humpback whales were conducted to collect genetic samples, individual identification photographs and song recordings in the four primary regions: New Caledonia, Tonga (Vavau), Cook Islands and French Polynesia (Moorea). Other regions surveyed in 2008 included Samoa, American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Hervey Bay, Peregian Beach and Eden. A total of 218 photo-identified individuals recorded from throughout the Oceania region during 2007 were matched against the quality-controlled Oceania region photo-ID catalogues from the years 1999- 2007. This revealed additional evidence of low levels of interchange among breeding grounds of Oceania. Following the genotype match reported between French Polynesia and Colombia (breeding stocks F and G) reported in the 2008 SPWRC report, a comparison of quality controlled flukes from French Polynesia and the Antarctic Peninsula was undertaken during 2008. This comparison did not produce any confirmed matches between the two regions. Song analysis for the years 2002-2006 showed a pattern of sequential movement of unique song types from eastern Australia, east across the breeding grounds of Oceania. Members once again expressed their opposition to Japan's continued lethal research programme in the Antarctic and their concern that the ongoing or planned hunt of fin and humpback whales could negatively impact small, recovering populations some of which are the subject of long-term, non-lethal research by the Consortium.

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