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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: 3401
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Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles
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27-11-14 |
Visitas: 3632
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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: 3960
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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: 4500
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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: 3741
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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: 3811
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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: 4568
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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: 3806
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Call for 2015 ACAP Small Grants applications: AUD 80 000 available
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20-11-14 |
Visitas: 3812
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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: 3886
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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: 3526
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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: 3586
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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: 3986
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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: 3436
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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: 3507
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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: 3502
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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: 6038
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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: 3898
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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: 4017
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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: 3365
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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: 4135
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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: 3542
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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: 3483
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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: 4887
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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: 3701
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A pledge to help the Black Petrel gets signed in New Zealand
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02-11-14 |
Visitas: 3464
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Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta
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01-11-14 |
Visitas: 3735
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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: 4044
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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: 4629
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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: 4419
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Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia
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28-10-14 |
Visitas: 3873
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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: 3745
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Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air: “Echoes” by Pink Floyd
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26-10-14 |
Visitas: 5726
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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: 3672
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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: 4302
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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: 3658
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Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel
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22-10-14 |
Visitas: 3386
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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: 3427
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ACAP presents a report on seabird bycatch in adjacent fisheries to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources this week
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20-10-14 |
Visitas: 3451
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Australia’s sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands get a new management plan
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19-10-14 |
Visitas: 6315
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Canada updates its assessment of the conservation status of the Short-tailed Albatross, a non-breeding visitor to its Pacific waters
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18-10-14 |
Visitas: 3484
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Utilizing beached Manx Shearwaters to monitor environmental health
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17-10-14 |
Visitas: 4636
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Alone in the Atlantic: at least one pair of Tristan Albatrosses continues to breed on mouse-free Inaccessible Island
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16-10-14 |
Visitas: 4078
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Brown Skuas videoed stealing eggs from underneath incubating Northern Giant Petrels
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15-10-14 |
Visitas: 4988
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Below 10% for the first time: Tristan Albatrosses have their least successful breeding year on Gough Island since recording commenced in 2000
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14-10-14 |
Visitas: 7887
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Most northerly Southern Giant Petrels on Gough Island gets counted for the third year in a row, suggesting a stable population
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13-10-14 |
Visitas: 4073
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Surviving in New Zealand: should the Flesh-footed Shearwater have a threatened status?
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12-10-14 |
Visitas: 3420
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Female-female Laysan Albatross pairs fledge chicks from fostered eggs
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11-10-14 |
Visitas: 4672
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The USA gets its second predator-proof fence to protect albatrosses and shearwaters on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i
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10-10-14 |
Visitas: 4551
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Population status and threats to Flesh-footed Shearwaters in South and Western Australia
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09-10-14 |
Visitas: 3549
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International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas progresses seabird bycatch mitigation at a meeting in Portugal
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08-10-14 |
Visitas: 3361
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Which ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels occur in the Mozambique Channel?
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07-10-14 |
Visitas: 3622
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Individual differences in migration strategies of Italian Scopoli's Shearwaters
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06-10-14 |
Visitas: 3586
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Book review: “Garbage Guts” by Heidi Auman explores the dangers of plastic pollution to marine life through the eyes of a Laysan Albatross
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05-10-14 |
Visitas: 6884
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Pinkie and the Scarer: effectiveness of two seabird mitigation devices on Australian trawlers
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04-10-14 |
Visitas: 3908
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the conservation of albatrosses down the ages
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03-10-14 |
Visitas: 4026
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The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation discusses seabird mortality and mitigation this week
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02-10-14 |
Visitas: 3170
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Keeping seabirds off the hook (and away from the trawl): how many FAO National Plans of Action - Seabirds have been adopted around the World since 1998?
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01-10-14 |
Visitas: 3229
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President Obama expands the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument at the edge of the breeding range of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses
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30-09-14 |
Visitas: 3881
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Moving iron around the Southern Ocean: what can Northern Giant Petrels contribute?
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29-09-14 |
Visitas: 3630
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The at-sea distributions of albatrosses and petrels in the Southern Ocean get mapped
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28-09-14 |
Visitas: 3367
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Bird-scaring lines to be adopted in the USA’s Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery to help keep Short-tailed Albatrosses off the hook
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27-09-14 |
Visitas: 2970
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Manx Shearwaters breed successfully on a United Kingdom island freed of its rats
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26-09-14 |
Visitas: 3863
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Work on Black-browed Albatross data from the South Atlantic: an employment opportunity in Portugal
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25-09-14 |
Visitas: 4369
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From Hawaii to Oregon and California: two colour-banded Black-footed Albatrosses photographed at sea
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24-09-14 |
Visitas: 4199
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Busy season: counting giant petrels in the Southern Ocean starts the round of summer censuses
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23-09-14 |
Visitas: 4092
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Crossing the line: trans-equatorial migrations of the Short-tailed Shearwater shown by geolocators
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22-09-14 |
Visitas: 3871
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Namibia’s NPOA-Seabirds and Gough’s mice: ACAP ends its Eighth Advisory Committee meeting in Uruguay
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21-09-14 |
Visitas: 4705
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Releasing rehabilitated albatrosses and petrels: avoiding the pathogen problem
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20-09-14 |
Visitas: 3690
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A Short-tailed Albatross gets hooked in USA waters
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19-09-14 |
Visitas: 3700
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Looking after its endemic albatrosses and petrels: Tristan da Cunha gets an updated Biodiversity Action Plan
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18-09-14 |
Visitas: 4640
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ACAP's meetings in Uruguay in pictures
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17-09-14 |
Visitas: 6468
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ACAP meeting attendees brave the weather to watch giant petrels at sea in Uruguay
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16-09-14 |
Visitas: 4623
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The USA publishes a progress report on the implementation of its National Plan of Action – Seabirds
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15-09-14 |
Visitas: 3465
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Gough Island reckoned the highest priority for the eradication of its alien House Mice among United Kingdom’s overseas islands by a comparative review
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14-09-14 |
Visitas: 4844
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Asian high-seas fishing nation increases the number of required mitigation measures for its 1000 longliners with an updated National Plan of Action - Seabirds
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13-09-14 |
Visitas: 3537
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Australia updates its Threat Abatement Plan for seabird mortality caused by longline fishing
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12-09-14 |
Visitas: 3890
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ACAP's Seabird Bycatch Group gets started in Punta del Este at its sixth meeting: fly-back injuries, sliding lead weights, lazy lines, hook pods and net chokes
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11-09-14 |
Visitas: 3595
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ACAP’s Population and Conservation Status Working Group completes its 2014 meeting: lasers and eyeballs, hook removal guidelines and criteria for identifying candidate species for listing
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10-09-14 |
Visitas: 3613
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ACAP’s Population and Conservation Working Group has a successful first day in Uruguay: robot camera, pathogen review, status and trends, the serious plight of Gough’s Tristan Albatrosses and more
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09-09-14 |
Visitas: 4664
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The Marine Stewardship Council reports how certification of a South African trawl fishery has helped save albatrosses – and employment
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08-09-14 |
Visitas: 3741
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ACAP Advisory Committee and Working Groups meet from tomorrow in Punta del Este, Uruguay
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07-09-14 |
Visitas: 4106
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Burrowing shearwaters and diving petrels as ecosystem engineers on New Zealand islands
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06-09-14 |
Visitas: 3756
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Australia decides not to list its Flesh-footed Shearwater populations under its Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
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05-09-14 |
Visitas: 3161
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Expedition leaves Cape Town today to conduct albatross and petrel research on Gough Island in the South Atlantic
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04-09-14 |
Visitas: 5151
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Feather chemical composition in White-chinned Petrels: can it help monitor marine ecosystems?
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03-09-14 |
Visitas: 4427
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Lead poisoning appears not to be a threat to Marion Island’s albatrosses and giant petrels
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02-09-14 |
Visitas: 3576
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Diet of New Zealand’s Antipodean Albatrosses tells us about the distribution of Southern Ocean squid
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01-09-14 |
Visitas: 3593
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Over half the plastic items swallowed by Laysan Albatrosses are made of infrequently recycled Polypropylene
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31-08-14 |
Visitas: 3563
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Prolonged handling of Short-tailed Albatross chicks causes muscle damage and behavioural changes
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30-08-14 |
Visitas: 3843
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Testing alien plant control methods in the Azores to help breeding Cory’s Shearwaters
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29-08-14 |
Visitas: 3678
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Fly north for what? Great and Sooty Shearwaters ingest plastic in Canadian Atlantic waters
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28-08-14 |
Visitas: 3768
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Lights,camera,action! Follow the fortunes of Kaloakulua, a Laysan Albatross chick in a Hawaiian suburban garden
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27-08-14 |
Visitas: 3751
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Discarded fishing gear continues to be a threat for Wandering Albatrosses in the South Atlantic
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26-08-14 |
Visitas: 3996
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South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands get a new management plan
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25-08-14 |
Visitas: 4897
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Oldies do it better? Parental age, experience and historical reproductive success in Wandering Albatrosses on Marion Island
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24-08-14 |
Visitas: 4095
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Storm petrels are affected by House Mice on an albatross island in the South Atlantic
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23-08-14 |
Visitas: 4000
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New Zealand’s Glenfern Sanctuary protects ACAP-listed Black Petrels in the face of winter storms
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22-08-14 |
Visitas: 3497
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