The S.A. Agulhas II departs from Cape Town on a journey south, photograph by Sydney Cullis On 09 April South Africa’s Antarctic research and supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas II left Cape Town to undertake its annual relief voyage to Marion Island, with...
Home schooling your children in the face of COVID-19? Or are the children you teach returning to your classroom or are about to? ACAP has come up with a way to keep young children occupied and entertained for an hour or two: the very first World...
Attendees at the Fitztitute 2020 AGM with a World Albatross Day banner, held by ACAP's Information Officer and Andrea Angel The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology (known as the ‘Fitztitute’), located within the Department of Biological...
Crew members on the Augusta 1 point to Albatross Task Force - South Africa's 'WAD2020' banner BirdLife International’s Albatross Task Force (ATF) is an international team of bycatch experts dedicated to saving albatrosses and other seabirds by working...
as acquiring a better understanding of the contexts in which they are likely to use these skills during their professional careers. As in previous years, the 2020 cohort of language students came from the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and...
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement keeps on file photographs of its 31 listed species to illustrate articles posted to its website and Facebook page and for use in posters, booklets and other materials that are produced from time to time. The majority...
This month ACAP Executive Secretary, Christine Bogle, travelled from Hobart in Tasmania, where the ACAP Secretariat is housed, to her home country of New Zealand to attend an important event: her graduation as a Doctor of Philosophy on 11 December!...
Professor Denzil G.M. Miller, AM, PhD (30 May 1951 – 30 November 2019), a professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong and a Senior Adjunct Researcher at the University of Tasmania, passed away at his home in Tasmania last week at the age of 68....
Abstract submissions are now being accepted for the Third World Seabird Conference (WSC3), to be held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia over 19-23 October 2020. Submissions are now being accepted for symposia, contributed oral presentations and posters....
Brooke, M. 2018. Far from Land. The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 249 pp. Eight colour plates; 13 colour maps; numerous black & white photographs, maps and charts; black & white illustrations by Bruce Pearson....