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title: "Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project: only a week left to comment on the proposal for 2011"
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# Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project: only a week left to comment on the proposal for 2011

Following the unsuccessful bait-dropping exercise last year the [Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service](http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1) intends to try again this year, starting in April, to eradicate the introduced European Rabbits, Black Rats and House Mice on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.

 The proposal has been determined to be a ‘controlled action' under Australia's *Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999* ([EPBC Act](http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/about/index.html)).  The Commonwealth Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has advised that the project requires assessment based on preliminary documentation.

 [Click here](http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/?base=20979) to access the full suite of available documents, including those dealing with [proposals](http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=20986) to reduce non-target mortality of seabirds, especially of the ACAP-listed Northern Giant Petrel *Macronectes halli*, killed in numbers in 2010 ([click here](http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=20987)).

 Interested persons and organisations are invited to comment in writing on the proposal to:

 P.O. Box 126, Moonah, Tasmania 7009, Australia

 or to:

 [mieradication@parks.tas.gov.au](mailto:mieradication@parks.tas.gov.au%20%20?subject=)

 The deadline for submissions is 10 January 2011.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/N/Northern_Giant/Northern_Giant_Petrel_by_Marienne_de_Villiers.jpg "Northern Giant Petrel.  Photograph by Marienne de Villiers")

 For earlier ACAP news items on the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Plan [click here](https://acap.aq/latest-news/male-northern-giant-petrels-are-at-risk-from-secondary-poisoning-on-macquarie-island).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 3 January 2010*