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title: "Conservation of procellariiform seabirds will be featured at next week’s Island Invasives Conference in New Zealand"
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# Conservation of procellariiform seabirds will be featured at next week’s Island Invasives Conference in New Zealand

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 The [Island Invasives 2026 Conference](https://www.islandinvasives.org/) “Charting the Future”, the fourth in the series, will be held at the University of Auckland, New Zealand over 9-13 February 2026.  A selected list by author and title of presentations extracted from the conference [book of abstracts](https://www.islandinvasives.org/ii26-abstract-book_20-10-2025/) follows.  It should be of particular interest to those who follow efforts to conserve procellariiform seabirds on invaded islands.

 **Oral Papers**

 Dayana Alva, Sebastián Lozano-Sanllehi, Diego Gonzales-DelCarpio, Cinthia Irigoin-Lovera, Brenda Gordillo, Isabella Díaz-Santibañez, Sara Wang, Michael Polito, Carlos Zavalaga: *Assessing the relationship between house mouse relative abundance and Peruvian diving-petrel hatching success on Isla La Vieja, Peru*

 Anton Wolfaardt, Keith Springer, Sue Tonin: Saving Marion Island’s seabirds: The Mouse-Free Marion Project.  *Advancing toward the eradication of house mice from a globally significant sub-Antarctic island*

 Sophie Thomas, Andrew Callender, Antje Steinfurth, Araceli Samaniego, Peter McClelland: Andrew Callender, Peter McClelland, Araceli Samaniego, Sophie Thomas: *Building from failure: review, investigations and next steps towards eradicating mice from Gough Island: The attempted eradication of house mice (*Mus musculus*) from Gough Island and its immediate aftermath*

 Peter McClelland, Tane Davis: *Eradications and biosecurity on the Titi islands southern New Zealand – empowering indigenous owners* [Sooty Shearwater *Ardenna grisea]*

 Al Glen, Joanna Carpenter, Paul Jacques, Rachael Sagar, Finlay Cox: *Spatial and temporal variability in population parameters of island cats*[Auckland Island]

 Darryl Birch, Kristine Ward, Darcelle Matassoni: *Eradications on inhabited islands.  Life after the rodent eradication project on Lord Howe Island, Australia*

 Sheri S. Mann, Patricia C Baiao, Joshua Atwood, Shane Siers, Mary Jo Mazurek, Alex Wegmann, Nick Holmes, Mele Khalsa, Pete McClelland, Clay Chow, Fia Moe, Dilek Sahin, Gregg Howald: *The history of invasive species management and the conservation future of Lehua Island, Hawai’i*

 Stephen Horn, Finlay Cox, Rachael Sagar, Veronika Frank, Em Oyston, Jennifer Long: *Building momentum: technical advances and planning implications for Maukahuka – pest free Auckland Island*

 **Posters**

 Wesley Jolley, Jonathan Plissner, Elizabeth Flint, Jose Luis Herrera, Cielo Figuerola, Carmen Antaky, Pete McClelland, Chris Forster, Morgan Walter, Dan Rapp, Nick Holmes, Alex Wegmann, Jared Underwood: *Midway seabird protection project: Overview and insights from an unsuccessful mouse eradication attempt*

 Finlay Cox, Rachael Sagar, Katie Ward-Allen, John Quigley, Jennifer Waite, Lyndsay Murray, Lynn Booth, Antoine Filion, Maddie Van De Wetering, Jennifer Rickett, Stephen Horn: *Enabling island predator eradications with a readymade 1080 predator bait for New Zealand* [Auckland Island]

 Access information on plenary speakers and associated workshops [here](https://acap.aq/latest-news/island-invasives-conference-february-2026-new-zealand-abstract-booklet-and-programme-are-now-online?highlight=WyJpc2xhbmQiLCJpc2xhbmRzIiwiaXNsYW5kJ3MiLCJpc2xhbmRzJyIsImlzbGFuZGVycyIsImlzbGFuZGVyIiwiJ2lzbGFuZCciLCJpc2xhbmQnIiwiaW52YXNpdmUiLCJpbnZhc2l2ZXMiLCJpbnZhc2lvbiIsImludmFzaW9ucyIsMjAyNl0=).

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses* *and Petrels, 02 February 2026*