These four petrels that breed on Marion Island are all at risk of predation by mice.  Artwork and poster design by Namasri “Namo” Niumim

Back in January 2024, the Saving Marion Island’s Seabirds: The Mouse-Free Marion (MFM) Project released an art poster, “Albatrosses on Marion Island”.  The poster depicted the four Marion Island breeding albatrosses, Grey-headed, Light-mantled, Sooty and Wandering, that are all susceptible to predation by the island’s introduced House Mice.  The paintings of each albatross were taken from an infographic series being produced for all 31 species of albatrosses and petrels listed by the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP).

The MFM Project is now pleased to release a second poster based on ACAP Species Infographics that feature four more ACAP-listed seabirds that breed on Marion Island and are also at risk of predation by mice.  They are the Grey, Northern Giant, Southern Giant and White-chinned Petrels.

The two posters on display in the MFM Project’s Cape Town office, with four ACAP Species Infographics of Marion Island’s albatrosses above, photograph by John Cooper

The two posters have been produced pro bono for the MFM Project by Thai illustrator Namasri ‘Namo’ Niumim, who resides in Bangkok.  Namo, who works in gouache, graduated from the School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design.  She has illustrated all the 21 ACAP Species Infographics produced to date.

Both posters can be downloaded from this website and used in support of the conservation of seabirds on Marion Island and elsewhere.  They join a series of 34 MFM Project photographic posters designed pro bono by long-time MFM ambassador, Michelle Risi, which are also available in an album on the MFM Project’s Facebook page.

 

With thanks to ACAP and Namo Niumim.

John Cooper, News Correspondent, Mouse-Free Marion Project, 04 February 2026

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White-chinned Petrel on Marion Island, watercolour by Flávia F. Barreto of Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) for the MFM Project, after a photograph by Ben Dilley

The Mouse-Free Marion Project is a registered non-profit company (No. 2020/922433/08) in South Africa, established to eradicate the invasive albatross-killing mice on Marion Island in the Southern Ocean.  The project was initiated by BirdLife South Africa and the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.  Upon successful completion, the project will restore the critical breeding habitat of over two million seabirds, many globally threatened, and improve the island’s resilience to a warming climate.  For more information or to support the project please visit mousefreemarion.org.