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title: "Getting together: ACAP's Status and Trends and Breeding Sites Working Groups to meet jointly this month in Ecuador"
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# Getting together: ACAP's Status and Trends and Breeding Sites Working Groups to meet jointly this month in Ecuador

The Sixth Meeting of the ACAP's [Status and Trends Working Group](https://acap.aq/english/english/working-groups/status-and-trends-working-group) (STWG 6) will be held [jointly](https://acap.aq/english/english/working-groups/joint-stwg-6-bswg-4-meeting-2011) with the Fourth Meeting of the [Breeding Sites Working Group](https://acap.aq/english/english/working-groups/breeding-sites-working-group) (BSWG 4) from 25-26 August in the Unipark Hotel, Guayaquil, Ecuador, shortly before the Sixth Meeting of the Agreement's Advisory Committee takes place at the same venue.  The joint meeting will be co-convened by Rosemary Gales (Australia) and Richard Phillips (United Kingdom).

 Documents to be considered at the two-day joint meeting are now available for consultation [on-line](https://acap.aq/meeting-documents/english/working-groups/joint-stwg-6-bswg-4-meeting-2011/stwg-6-/-bswg-4-meeting-documents).

 Matters to be discussed include the proposed nomination of the Balearic Shearwater*Puffinus mauretanicus* to the Agreement by Spain ([click here](https://acap.aq/latest-news/acaps-advisory-committee-to-consider-a-proposal-by-spain-to-add-the-balearic-shearwater-to-the-agreement)), identification of internationally important breeding sites, biosecurity and eradication guidelines, census methodologies for surface-nesting albatrosses and petrels, the Red Data status of ACAP-listed species, threats arising from pathogens, parasites and disease, and the possible merger of the two working groups.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Balearic/balearic_shearwater_daniel_oro.jpg "Balearic Shearwater: a new ACAP species?  Photograph by Daniel Oro")

 The Working Groups' reports will then be considered by ACAP's Advisory Committee meeting the following week.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 August 2011*