Report on the translocation of (New Zealand) North Island Robin available.

A copy of the report prepared by the Mainland Island Restoration Operation is available for download here.

Special Issue of Animal Conservation submission request

Jennifer Germano is putting together a special issue of Animal Conservation called "Moving towards greater success in translocations: recent advances from the herpetofauna".  So if you have reintroduction research involving herpetofauna you are interested in publishing.  The submission deadline is 1 November 2013 - authors are encouraged to

send a 400 word proposal to the editors (via elina.rantanen@zsl.org) prior to submission. 

IUCN Reintroduction Guidelines available

The final published version of the revised IUCN Reintroduction Guidelines is out.  See the following for a brief news story on the IUCN website and a link for downloading the guidelines... 

http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/?13377/New-Guidelines-on-conservation-translocations-published-by-IUCN 

Micky Soorae (RSG Secretary) is in the process of preparing a press release for the new guidelines and would like to know if anyone has yet consulted the new guidelines for a re-introduction project or perhaps for development of local guidelines.  If so, please contact Micky directly at iucnrsg@gmail.com.

Registration for AWMS conference now open

Registration for this year's AWMS conference is now open, and abstracts are due at the end of this month (see http://www.awms.org.au/conference). You're hopefully all aware by now that the main theme of this year's conference is "Advances in Reintroduction of Australasian Fauna 1993-2013".  We are also looking at publishing a book on this theme.  Let me know if you have any questions, but otherwise I'm looking forward to seeing your abstracts.

Cheers,

Doug Armstrong <D.P.Armstrong@massey.ac.nz>

Millerbird translocation protocols

Publication on Nihoa Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris kingi) Translocation Protocols now available on site.