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From time to time ACAP publishes articles in the international seabird science and conservation journal Marine Ornithology in an attempt to bring its activities to a wider audience. The latest paper (click here) reports on the 2009 inclusion of the three North Pacific albatrosses within the Agreement, bringing full coverage of the family by ACAP.

The paper's abstract follows:

"The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels at the Third Session of its Meeting of Parties held in Bergen, Norway, April/ May 2009, added the three North Pacific albatrosses, the Short-tailed Phoebastria albatrus, the Laysan P. immutabilis and the Black-footed P. nigripes, to Annex 1 of the Agreement. It is believed that this listing will result in benefits to both domestic and international efforts to conserve these and other albatrosses and petrels already listed under the Agreement."

ACAP-related publications in Marine Ornithology to date are listed below.

References:

COOPER, J., BAKER, G.B., DOUBLE, M.C., GALES, R., PAPWORTH, W., TASKER, M.L. & WAUGH, S.M. 2006. The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: rationale, history, progress and the way forward. Marine Ornithology 34: 1-5. http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/34_1/34_1_1-5.pdf.

COOPER, J. & BAKER, G.B. 2008. Identifying candidate species for inclusion within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Marine Ornithology 36: 1-8. http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/36_1/36_1_1-8.pdf.

COOPER, J., MORGAN, K.H. & TASKER, M.L. 2009. Listing North Pacific albatrosses within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Marine Ornithology 37: 189-191. http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/37_3/37_3_189-191.pdf.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 31 May 2010