low or middle income countries, which include five ACAP Parties. Applicants and their students should check the BOU Small Grants Scheme where smaller-scale tracking/migration projects up to a maximum of UK 2000 will be considered under funding from the...
A Flesh-footed Shearwater pair on Lord Howe Island, photograph by Ian Hutton Megan Grant (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Pollution on...
(right) and CapMarine’s Sayalibonga Njokweni aboard a hake trawl vessel With funding from ACAP’s 2019 round of the Small Grants Programme, BirdLife South Africa and Imvelo Blue Environment Consultancy (IBEC) have partnered to develop a compliance...
Balearic Shearwater at sea, photograph by Pep Arcos The Small Grants Programme aims to assist ACAP meet its objective of achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for albatrosses and petrels. Sixteen applications were received from...
Wayne Sentman, Director of Conservation Travel Programs, Oceanic Society, has written to ACAP Latest News describing how his society contributes to the conservation of albatrosses: “Founded in 1969 when an “open moment” of ecological awakening stirred...
with expert advice on managing their threats and populations. Since 2007, the PSG’s Craig S. Harrison Conservation Fund Grants Program has supported research and conservation of seabirds including encouraging at-sea monitoring of Critically Endangered...
BirdLife South Africa takes its 'WAD2020' banner to sea on a trawler, photograph by Reason Nyengera The Marine Stewardship Council has granted BirdLife South Africa a two-year research grant of UK£ 50 000 from its Oceans Stewardship Fund to reduce...
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...
The Seabird Group, a registered charity based in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1966 to promote and help coordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. Three years later, the Seabird Group initiated Operation Seafarer, the first attempt to...
UPDATE Submission deadline extended to 16 December 2019 "Due to overwhelming community requests, WSC3 is extending the abstract submissions deadline until Monday December 16. Submissions are being accepted for symposia, certain workshops, contributed...