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Technical Specialist Meeting of the Joint tuna RFMO Bycatch Working Group takes place this week in Taiwan
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28-01-15 |
Visitas: 3896
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Watching Shy Albatrosses with a robotic camera
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27-01-15 |
Visitas: 4087
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The Laysan Albatross has started breeding at a young age at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu
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26-01-15 |
Visitas: 14950
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125 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses reported stranded on Brazilian beaches in 2013
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25-01-15 |
Visitas: 3555
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More Short-tailed Albatross sightings on the USA’s Kure Atoll
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24-01-15 |
Visitas: 4220
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Nine species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels visit a marine reserve in southern Brazil
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24-01-15 |
Visitas: 3168
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Feeling a bit lousy: Critically Endangered Waved Albatrosses carry critically co-endangered lice
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23-01-15 |
Visitas: 11954
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One-eyed albatrosses can make it through life
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21-01-15 |
Visitas: 15198
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One-way trip: a banded Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross gets recovered on a Brazilian beach
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20-01-15 |
Visitas: 12627
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Second year of the Chatham Albatross chick translocation project gets underway
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19-01-15 |
Visitas: 9088
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Record numbers of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses breeding in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge this year thought due to El Niño
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18-01-15 |
Visitas: 15940
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Phase 3 to complete the eradication of rodents from a large South Atlantic island is about to start
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17-01-15 |
Visitas: 10580
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Going your own way: spatial segregation when foraging by neighbouring Cory’s Shearwaters
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16-01-15 |
Visitas: 6212
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Identifying Southern Giant Petrel (and other seabird) colonies in Antarctica by their guano stains spotted by satellite
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15-01-15 |
Visitas: 3409
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Moult of Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses, Spectacled Petrels and Great Shearwaters caught at sea
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14-01-15 |
Visitas: 3335
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Organic pollutants reach Antarctica in Southern Giant Petrels
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13-01-15 |
Visitas: 3671
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Do Shy as well as White-capped Albatrosses occur in the south-west Atlantic?
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12-01-15 |
Visitas: 3389
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Do Wandering Albatrosses get old? A new study does not find signs of senescence
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11-01-15 |
Visitas: 3993
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Where did that albatross go? The ninth bi-annual North Star Transmitter Grant Program has eight PTTs to give away
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10-01-15 |
Visitas: 3489
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Results of the most recent albatross counts on Kure Atoll
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09-01-15 |
Visitas: 4168
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An incubating Laysan Albatross gets unhooked
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08-01-15 |
Visitas: 5344
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A newly-developed underwater bait setter aims to stop albatrosses and petrels being killed by pelagic longline fisheries
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07-01-15 |
Visitas: 3354
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Scopoli’s Shearwaters, Northern Gannets and West African fisheries: need for improved marine conservation
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06-01-15 |
Visitas: 3188
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Taxonomic status of Shy and White-capped Albatrosses
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05-01-15 |
Visitas: 4865
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PCBs and corticosterone in Wandering Albatrosses and other polar seabirds
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04-01-15 |
Visitas: 3169
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UPDATED: Testing the Smart Tuna Hook
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03-01-15 |
Visitas: 4490
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UPDATED: Ecuador's Environmental Ministry hears of the NISURI tube to reduce seabird mortality in artisanal longlining
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02-01-15 |
Visitas: 3984
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Cephalopods in the diet of non-breeding Black-browed and Grey-headed Albatrosses
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01-01-15 |
Visitas: 3046
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Using vocalization playbacks to help identify restoration sites for burrowing petrels and shearwaters in New Zealand
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31-12-14 |
Visitas: 2746
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Moonlight affects colony attendance in Scopoli’s Shearwaters
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30-12-14 |
Visitas: 3694
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A botanical fence also protects Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels from feral pigs on Kaua’i
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29-12-14 |
Visitas: 3283
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To boldly breed where no shy Wandering Albatross has bred before
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28-12-14 |
Visitas: 3268
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Are there 25 000 Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters?
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27-12-14 |
Visitas: 3553
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Follow that krill: Short-tailed Shearwaters in the Arctic
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26-12-14 |
Visitas: 3218
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Season's greetings and all best wishes for 2015 from the ACAP Secretariat
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25-12-14 |
Visitas: 2886
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The end of breeding by Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll?
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24-12-14 |
Visitas: 5102
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A World first: translocating albatross eggs to start a new colony
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23-12-14 |
Visitas: 7145
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Thousands of boats: challenges in reducing seabird bycatch in small-scale and artisanal fisheries
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22-12-14 |
Visitas: 3716
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The carrot or the knout? Comparing command-and-control and incentive-based approaches to reducing seabird bycatch
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21-12-14 |
Visitas: 2958
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Spectacled and White-chinned Petrels and other seabirds are killed by gillnets and longlines off southern Brazil
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20-12-14 |
Visitas: 2883
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Playing catch-up to longlining: the potential for albatross mortality in the New South Wales Ocean Trawl fishery requires study
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19-12-14 |
Visitas: 2991
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Seabird assemblages in Antarctica’s Drake Passage
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18-12-14 |
Visitas: 3418
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Twenty-seven-year-old Northern Royal Albatross pair at Taiaroa Head incubates its 10th egg
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17-12-14 |
Visitas: 3664
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Plans to control Norfolk Island’s rats and cats set to help both parrots and shearwaters
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16-12-14 |
Visitas: 3448
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Call for Application: ACAP Executive Secretary, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
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15-12-14 |
Visitas: 3221
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 75. North-east Kauai, where Laysan Albatrosses breed on private lands - and a webcam has made one pair and its chick famous with two million hits
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14-12-14 |
Visitas: 6125
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Black and white warning panels fixed to gill nets are expected to reduce seabird mortality: a sensory ecology review
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13-12-14 |
Visitas: 2901
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Eight very large Marine Protected Areas totalling over three and a third million square kilometres surround breeding sites of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels
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12-12-14 |
Visitas: 2953
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Transfer of immunity from female parent vaccinated against Newcastle Disease to chick in Cory’s Shearwater
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11-12-14 |
Visitas: 2596
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The University of Barcelona produces a documentary on seabird bycatch in the Mediterranean in Catalán and Spanish
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10-12-14 |
Visitas: 2913
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The ACAP Secondment Programme calls for 2015 applications
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09-12-14 |
Visitas: 3079
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The symbolism of the albatross in Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick
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08-12-14 |
Visitas: 6801
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Does the Tropical Shearwater breed in Fiji?
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07-12-14 |
Visitas: 4148
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An update on research on the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater
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06-12-14 |
Visitas: 2710
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Registration for the 2nd World Seabird Conference in Cape Town October 2015 opens
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05-12-14 |
Visitas: 3101
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2nd Symposium on the Conservation of Marine and Coastal Birds in the Mediterranean to be held in Tunisia next February is expected to discuss the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater
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04-12-14 |
Visitas: 3885
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Identifying suitable breeding sites for Hawaii’s Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters by modelling their habitat
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03-12-14 |
Visitas: 3148
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The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission is meeting this week and improved seabird mitigation for small vessels is on the agenda
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02-12-14 |
Visitas: 3004
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Northern Royal Albatrosses return to breed in numbers on New Zealand’s mainland at Taiaroa Head
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01-12-14 |
Visitas: 3570
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Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters are killed by Portuguese purse seines and set nets
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30-11-14 |
Visitas: 3666
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Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway for yet another breeding season
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29-11-14 |
Visitas: 5343
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Tracing Flesh-footed Shearwaters killed by fisheries to their breeding colonies via feather trace metal analysis
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28-11-14 |
Visitas: 3399
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Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles
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27-11-14 |
Visitas: 3630
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Assessing the levels of unobserved mortality in New Zealand longline and trawl fisheries
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26-11-14 |
Visitas: 3958
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White-capped Albatrosses on New Zealand’s Auckland Islands get counted from aerial photographs over eight years, suggesting a stable population
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25-11-14 |
Visitas: 4498
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Kure’s Short-tailed Albatross female-female pair returns to the atoll and lays two eggs for a fifth consecutive season
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24-11-14 |
Visitas: 3740
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Conservation law and the Black Petrel: a New Zealand PhD thesis takes a legal view
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23-11-14 |
Visitas: 3809
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 74. Wake Atoll, at the edge of the breeding range of North Pacific albatrosses
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22-11-14 |
Visitas: 4566
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ACAP to hold its Fifth Meeting of Parties in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife in May next year
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21-11-14 |
Visitas: 3804
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Call for 2015 ACAP Small Grants applications: AUD 80 000 available
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20-11-14 |
Visitas: 3811
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Kiribati and the USA sign an agreement to protect the Phoenix Ocean Arc in the Pacific
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19-11-14 |
Visitas: 3884
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A PhD gets awarded for studying the marine ecosystem of the Prince Edward Islands
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18-11-14 |
Visitas: 3524
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South Africa’s Marion Island is still the largest from which feral cats have been eradicated – 23 years on
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17-11-14 |
Visitas: 3584
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Questions to consider when planning the tracking of albatrosses and petrels by satellite or GPS
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16-11-14 |
Visitas: 3984
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Black-browed and Salvin’s Albatrosses and both giant petrels visit Chilean oceanic islands in the South Pacific
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15-11-14 |
Visitas: 3434
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ACAP attends two tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization meetings in Japan to discuss seabird bycatch in high-seas longline fisheries
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14-11-14 |
Visitas: 3505
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Assessing plastic ingestion in Short-tailed and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters via the uropygial gland
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13-11-14 |
Visitas: 3500
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Albatross, cat, mouse and rat: adversaries on invaded islands all get their stories told in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series
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12-11-14 |
Visitas: 6037
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Cross-border collaboration to protect threatened species: the case of Canada, the USA and the Short-tailed Albatross
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11-11-14 |
Visitas: 3896
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Commission on Migratory Species adopts a resolution on marine debris while meeting in Ecuador
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10-11-14 |
Visitas: 4015
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Manx Shearwaters get a boost on United Kingdom islands
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09-11-14 |
Visitas: 3898
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Incubation costs in seabirds, including some albatrosses and petrels, get reviewed
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08-11-14 |
Visitas: 3363
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Female Black-browed Albatrosses “exhibit more variable behaviours” when foraging than do males
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07-11-14 |
Visitas: 4133
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UPDATED Consensus not achieved once again: no new MPAs established in the Southern Ocean by CCAMLR this year
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06-11-14 |
Visitas: 3540
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New Zealand holds a Seabird of the Year competition: will an ACAP-listed species win?
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05-11-14 |
Visitas: 3481
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The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project gets formally assessed as a “great result”
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04-11-14 |
Visitas: 4885
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Modelling the Prince Edward Islands: home of nine species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels
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03-11-14 |
Visitas: 3699
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A pledge to help the Black Petrel gets signed in New Zealand
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02-11-14 |
Visitas: 3462
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Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta
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01-11-14 |
Visitas: 3733
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Saving albatrosses: BirdLife South Africa’s Ross Wanless receives Environmentalist of the Year award
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31-10-14 |
Visitas: 4042
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At least 15 Reindeer remain on a South Atlantic seabird island following a two-year eradication programme
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30-10-14 |
Visitas: 4627
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ACAP supports the first aerial census of Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses on the UK’s Gough Island
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29-10-14 |
Visitas: 4417
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Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia
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28-10-14 |
Visitas: 3871
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Keeping mongooses off the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i is a priority for threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters
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27-10-14 |
Visitas: 3744
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Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air: “Echoes” by Pink Floyd
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26-10-14 |
Visitas: 5723
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The Eleventh Chilean Ornithological Congress heard about the Pink-footed Shearwater - an ACAP candidate species – last week
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25-10-14 |
Visitas: 3670
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Facing into the wind: the complicated fate of the Laysan Albatross. An illustrated account by Hugh Powell
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24-10-14 |
Visitas: 4300
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Night strikes on a Tristan Rock Lobster fishing vessel do not impact on ACAP-listed petrels
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23-10-14 |
Visitas: 3656
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Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel
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22-10-14 |
Visitas: 3384
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Report of the latest ACAP Advisory Committee meeting announces the Fifth Meeting of Parties will convene in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife next May
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21-10-14 |
Visitas: 3425
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