Mouse-Free Marion
HQ 🇿🇦 South Africa · 1 project tracked
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📰 Update · 3d
Move for Marion! Walk, run, cycle, paddle or swim five kilometres to help save the island’s threatened seabirds
📰 Update · 1w
The Mouse-Free Marion Project thanks Emi Shimizu and Keiko Suzue of BirdLife International Tokyo for their valued support
📰 Update · 1w
We’re hiring. Mouse-Free Marion Project Field Assistants (March 2027 – May 2028)
📰 Update · 2w
Dashing through the snow: MFM Project’s all-female field team heads to Marion Island on a winter relief voyage
📰 Update · 3w
Mouse-Free Marion Project supporter, Denise Landau, receives an Owl Award from BirdLife South Africa
📰 Update · Sep 29
Marion Island top predator researcher, Dr Azwianewi Makhado, elected Chair of the Convention on Migratory Species’ Scientific Council
📰 Update · Sep 23
“Walbie” spreads his wings at the South African Bird Fair
📰 Update · Sep 14
“Pain forms the character”. The Mouse-Free Marion Project raises awareness with a book promotion
🇿🇦 South Africa
House mice reached Marion Island with sealers, ran out of insects, and learned to eat seabird chicks alive in their nests. The chicks, having evolved without predators, do not move.
33percentShare of the world's wandering albatrosses breeding on Marion
60percentFunding target secured