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title: "Rodent eradication plan for a shearwater island"
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# Rodent eradication plan for a shearwater island

 Although not an ACAP-listed species, the Flesh-footed Shearwater *Puffinus carneipes*scored relatively highly in an assessment conducted by ACAP's Advisory Committee designed to identify procellariiform species whose conservation status might be improved by international action ([click here](http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/36_1/36_1_1-8.pdf) for a paper on the assessment exercise). 

  The Flesh-footed Shearwater breeds on Australia's Lord Howe Island where its declining population is considered to be at risk from both bycatch at sea and from land-based conservation issues ([click here](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V5X-4HNSGB1-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1112820775&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7965b443789e83a0bf99a91f827c2553)). 

  A draft plan has now been released to eradicate the introduced rodents of Lord Howe ([click here](http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/pestsweeds/draftLHIrodentplan.pdf)) which, if carried out successfully, should help improve the conservation status of the shearwater.

  *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 28 November 2009*