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title: "\"Do fence me in!\" ACAP’s latest listed species, the Pink-footed Shearwater, is to get a predator-proof fence"
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# "Do fence me in!" ACAP’s latest listed species, the Pink-footed Shearwater, is to get a predator-proof fence

The [Vulnerable](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3931) Pink-footed Shearwater *Puffinus creatopus*, a Chilean endemic, is the most recently listed ACAP species, being added to the Agreement in May this year ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2122-welcome-to-the-pink-footed-shearwater-acap-gets-its-31st-species-in-tenerife)).  Its conservation status is now about to improve with some fencing.

  ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Pink_footed/Pink-footed Shearwater 6 Peter Hodum s.jpg)

 Pink-footed Shearwater, photograph by Peter Hodum

 With funding from the [American Bird Conservancy](http://abcbirds.org/), the Municipality of Juan Fernández, [Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge](http://oikonos.org/) and Corporación Nacional Forestal (Chile's National Forest Corporation, [CONAF](http://www.conaf.cl/)) have started transferring material to [Robinson Crusoe Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Island)for the construction of a predator-proof fence in an area of the island known as Tierras Blancas.  The fence will cover about 20 ha and will be 1700 m in length.  The Tierras Blancas fence will protect several important species in the [Archipiélago Juan Fernández](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Islands), including a major Pink-footed Shearwater colony, a Juan Fernández Fur Seal *Arctocephalus philippii* colony, and a fern that was recently rediscovered in the area after it was thought to be extinct.

 According to Oikonos, “this fence will start the process of ecological protection from a host of introduced predators.”

 Information from the [Oikonos Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/Oikonos?fref=ts).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 05 September 2015*