Robert Paterson gave an excellent talk at short notice on the 2011 to 2015 project to eliminate rats and mice on South Georgia. This project was privately funded and involved 3 helicopters and 39 project workers including 4 pilotes. The project cost £10 million and in 2018 the Island was declared rat and mice free. Robert was captain of the support ship, “Sir Ernest Shackleton” of the British Antartic Survey.
The next talk 20th January, Rebecca Synott, South Eastern Technical University in Ireland, and Malcolm Newdick: ‘Getting DNA from Bute’s red squirrels’