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title: "A new consultancy will focus on Hawaii’s threatened Newell’s Shearwater and Hawaiian Petrel"
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# A new consultancy will focus on Hawaii’s threatened Newell’s Shearwater and Hawaiian Petrel

 ![Andre Raine Newells chick shrunk](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/People/Andre_Raine_Newells_chick_shrunk.jpg)

 *André Raine of**Archipelago Research and Conservation holds a Newell’s Shearwater chick*

 Archipelago Research and Conservation ([ARC](https://archipelagoresearchandconservation.com)) is a recently established Hawaiʻi-based ecological consultancy and project management service that works primarily on seabirds and other native species.  ARC’s Science Director, Dr. André Raine, was previously Project Co-ordinator for the Kaua'i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project ([KESRP](https://www.facebook.com/kauaiseabirdproject/)).  André informs *ACAP Latest News* that in his new role within ARC he will be working with the globally [Critically Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/newells-shearwater-puffinus-newelli/text) Newell's Shearwater *Puffinus newelli* and the globally [Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/hawaiian-petrel-pterodroma-sandwichensis) Hawaiian Petrel *Pterodroma sandwichensis*, among other native species.  A key focus will be colony management for these two endemic seabirds, including social attraction projects.  ARC and other project partners are also initiating a social attraction project focused on the Band-rumped Storm Petrel *Hydrobates castro* (globally [Least +++++++++++Concern](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/band-rumped-storm-petrel-hydrobates-castro/text) but recently up-listed within the USA to Endangered).  Farther afield ARC has commenced work on locating breeding Tahiti Petrels *Pseudobulweria rostrata* ([Near Threatened](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/tahiti-petrel-pseudobulweria-rostrata/text)) in American Samoa with several other project partners.

  ![Hawaiian Petrel](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/Petrels/Hawaiian_Petrel.jpg)

  ![Newells Shearewater Lindsay Young](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Shearwaters/Newells-Shearewater-Lindsay-Young.jpg)

 *Hawaiian Petrel (left) and Newell’s Shearwater (photograph by Lindsay Young)*

 Read recent news on ARC’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/Archipelago-Research-and-Conservation-103377358383197) and access a [bibliography of publications](https://archipelagoresearchandconservation.com/publications/) on threatened tubenoses by André Raine and ARC Executive Director Helen Raine.  Publications listed may be requested via [mailto:info@archipelagoresearchandconservation.com](mailto:info@archipelagoresearchandconservation.com)[info@archipelagoresearchandconservation.com](mailto:info@archipelagoresearchandconservation.com).

 [https://archipelagoresearchandconservation.com/publications/](https://archipelagoresearchandconservation.com/publications/)With thanks to André Raine.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 22 April 2021*