The core purpose of the BBC Wildlife Fund is to raise awareness and funds to save threatened wildlife and places.  In 2010 the fund has been supporting the work of the Albatross Task Force in Brazil through Projeto Abatroz to reduce seabird bycatch in South Atlantic fisheries, such as by encouraging the use of streamer or bird-scaring lines in longline fisheries.

Read more on the ATF's conservation efforts in Brazil at:

 http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/06/BBC-fund-helps-to-keep-albatrosses-off-the-hook.html

 and

 http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-254624

Information on the at-sea movements of a pair of satellite-tracked Wandering Albatrosses in the South Atlantic may be found at the BBC Earth Explorers web site.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 25 June 2010