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The World Conservation Union produces and updates the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.  As part of its celebration of 2010 as the United Nations' International Year of Biodiversity IUCN has launched  The "Red List Species of the Day" which will run throughout the year (click here).

The 365 species selected will represent the entire range of taxa and cover all regions, with each daily fact sheet providing information on the threats to their existence.  The Red Species chosen for 9 January 2010 was the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans (click here), an ACAP-listed species with an IUCN category of threat of Vulnerable.

Interested readers can follow the IUCN Red List web site over the course of 2010 to see if any more ACAP-listed species appear as Red List Species of the Day.

Click here for BirdLife International's account for the species and here for the ACAP Species Assessment of the Wandering Albatross.

See also http://www.arkive.org/wandering-albatross/diomedea-exulans/.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 29 January 2010