eradication Archives - Sonoran Joint Venture

Artificial colony of Brandt's cormorant on Todos Santos Sur Island, Mexico (photo courtesy of GECI).

Successful Restoration of Mexican Islands

July 12, 2023July 16, 2018

To conserve island biodiversity, the Group of Ecology and Conservation of Islands, A.C. (GECI), has been working for the last two decades in collaboration with government agencies, academic institutions, fishing cooperatives and a network of donors, to carry out a national program of restoration and conservation of the islands of Mexico.

Scripps's Murrelets nest are often cryptic and hidden in rocky crevices or under shrubs (photo courtesy of Amelia DuVall).

The Recovery of Scripps’s Murrelets at Anacapa Island, Channel Islands National Park

July 12, 2023July 16, 2018

With support in part from the SJV Awards Program, CIES’s monitoring of Scripps’s Murrelets is one of the most robust data-sets of the post-eradication response of affected seabirds, but there’s more work needed to protect these birds.