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title: "Helping Southern Giant Petrels on the Continent: two Antarctic management plans revised"
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# Helping Southern Giant Petrels on the Continent: two Antarctic management plans revised

Southern Giant Petrels *Macronectes giganteus* are the only ACAP-listed species that breed on the Antarctic Continent, where their colonies fall within the protection of the [Antarctic Treaty System](http://www.ats.aq/index_e.htm).

 Last year's Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting ([ATCM XXXIII](http://www.ats.aq/devAS/ats_meetings_meeting.aspx?lang=e)) held in Uruguay approved revised management plans for one Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) and one Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA) where Southern Giant Petrels breed.

 These are:

 [ASPA No. 102](http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att440_e.pdf).  Rookery Islands, Holme Bay, Mac.Robertson Land. 

 [ASMA No. 7](http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att455_e.pdf).  Southwest Anvers Island and Palmer Basin. 

 For a complete list of the 15 ASPAs and two ASMAs that support breeding Southern Giant Petrels [click here](https://acap.aq/management-plans/mgmt-plans-sgp).

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/S/Southern_Giant/white-phase_southern_giant_petrel_gough_sept2010_steve_yaxley.jpg "White-phase Southern Giant Petrel.  Photograph by Steve Yaxley")

 [Click here](http://www.ats.aq/e/ats_other_siteguidelines.htm) for Antarctic localities visited by tourists which have site guideline documents to help protect them.  Five of these sites support breeding Southern Giant Petrels.  They are:

 [Barrientos Island](http://www.ats.aq/siteguidelines/documents/Aitcho_e.pdf) (Aitcho Islands), South Shetland Islands

 [Brown Bluff](http://www.ats.aq/siteguidelines/documents/Brown_e.pdf), Antarctic Peninsula (suspected breeding only)

 [Hannah Point](http://www.ats.aq/siteguidelines/documents/Hannah_e.pdf), Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

 [Penguin Island](http://www.ats.aq/siteguidelines/documents/Penguin_e.pdf), eastern King George Island, South Shetland Islands

 [Turret Point](http://www.ats.aq/siteguidelines/documents/Turrent_e.pdf), eastern King George Island, South Shetland Islands.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 5 January 2010*