Good turnout expected for the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 13-17 August 2012

The latest news on developments with the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference (IAPC5) is in from ACAP's Australasian News Correspondent, Matt Rayner.

"It's looking to be a great conference.  Currently we have 105 registered attendees (increasing daily) with presentations falling into four broad themes:

Distribution and Important Bird Areas,
Fisheries (bycatch and mitigation),
Island Restoration and Translocations, and
Populations and Conservation.

There will additional sessions on taxonomy and the impacts of marine pollutants.

Each set of talks around a main theme will be followed at the end of each day by a discussion, open to all, when emerging topics or other key aspects of presentations or the theme in general can be debated.   We have a great venue for this - a large warm pub-like atmosphere with roaring fires to beat out the winter cold (click here).

We have close to 50 posters (likely to increase slightly as the conference gets closer) across a wide range of topics, and there will be two dedicated poster sessions.

Registration is still open and new registrants can submit an abstract for a poster presentation directly to David Thompson at Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo. - we can accommodate a limited number of extra posters, so first in first served."

Chatham Albatross: endemic to New Zealand
Photograph by Matt Charteris

The conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand over 12-17 August.  See you there!

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 21 May 2012