At the meeting of SCSCB in Antigua
in July 2009, Will Mackin, Ann Sutton, and two experts from
Island Conservation, Brad Keitt and Kirsty Swinnerton, held a workshop
on eradicating invasive species from seabird breeding sites in the
Caribbean. Such techniques have been incredibly successful at
increasing seabird populations including at islands around the
Caribbean. The goal of the workshop in Antigua was to introduce
participants to the process of eradication and the steps necessary to
evaluate candidate sites, build local and governmental support, and
assess the feasibility of the eradication.
For this meeting, we
created a list of nesting sites in the Caribbean
that would be feasible for eradicating harmful invasives and preventing
them from recolonizing the site. We identified 459 sites that
would be good candidates based on their size (<10,000 ha) and
distance from other colonies (>100 m; ideally >1 km). A pdf of
these sites is located
here. A copy of the powerpoint about the islands is
here.
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