Claude Joiris (Laboratory for Polar Ecology, Saint Restitut, France) and Grant Humphries have published in the journal Advances in Polar Science on seabirds at sea in the Southern Ocean, finding concentrations at oceanic fronts. The ACAP-listed...
Grant Humphries (Black Bawks Data Science Ltd., Fort Augustus, Scotland, U.K.) has authored a chapter in a book entitled Machine Learning for Ecology and Sustainable Natural Resource Management that he has co-edited that considers the relationship...
A baited Hookpod ready for release, photograph by Fabiano Pepes The spring-loaded polycarbonate Hookpod is a hook-shielding device that is attached to the branch lines of a pelagic longline, encapsulating the barbed end of the baited hook. Once it...
made by the ACAP Secretariat in December last year (click here) 10 grant applications were received from Parties for small grants by the February 2018 deadline. The applications were assessed, as appropriate, by referees from the three ACAP Working...
The British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) Small Ornithological Research Grants Scheme provides awards of up to UK£ 2000 a project and is aimed at supporting small projects outright and to part-fund medium-sized research programmes. The scheme will...
National Geographic in collaboration with the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is providing grants for the recovery of species on the brink of extinction. Proposals that focus on the following three themes are encouraged: Specific and defensible...
A total of 282 globally Vulnerable and New Zealand endemic Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita chicks has been translocated by the Chatham Islands Taiko Trust from the Pyramid, the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island...
of Glasgow, United Kingdom) and colleagues have published a grant report in the Seabird Group Newsletter (and on the grants page on the group’s website) on a study of the numbers and at-sea movements of globally Near Threatened Sooty Shearwaters Ardenna...
An online article in Hakai Magazine reports on research which shows that fishing at night instead of using bird-scaring lines (BSLs) in the US Pacific longline fishery for Black Cod Anoplopoma fimbria, also known as Sablefish, is a better choice to...
Total funding of approximately AUD 120 000 is available for allocation. Applications must be submitted on an ACAP Small Grants Application Form, also available from this website via the home page. When assessing project applications, preference will be...