From left: Jade Peyro, Candelaria Brun, Christine Bogle, ACAP Executive Secretary, Ana Cabaleiro and Juliette Ruytoor in the ACAP offices in Hobart ACAP’s three official working languages are English, French and Spanish. Since 2013 the ACAP Secretariat...
SPEA (Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves) is the national partner of BirdLife International in Portugal. Ana Almeida is SPEA’s Marine Conservation Officer. She wrote last month to ACAP Latest News describing trials of a new device to reduce...
Marc Parchow Figueiredo, a cartoonist residing in Portugal, has previously drawn special cartoons featuring his iconic Qual Albatroz birds to mark ACAP events (click here). At ACAP’s request he has also produced a three-panel series to mark next year’s...
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement (ACAP) has been working towards the inauguration of a Word Albatross Day next year, to be celebrated annually on 19 June. This is the date ACAP was signed in Canberra, Australia in 2001 (click here). An intersessional...
Lucía Soliño (Instituto Português do Mar da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal) and colleagues have published in the journal Harmful Algae on whether harmful algal blooms can affect pelagic seabirds, such as Cory’s Calonectris borealis and Scopoli’s C....
Jorge Pereira (MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) and colleagues have published in the journal Ocean and Coastal Management on choosing marine protected areas (MPAs) off...
Hélder Araújo (Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) and colleagues have published in the journal Marine Biology on aerial censuses of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Balearic...
Johan Elmberg (Division of Natural Sciences, Kristianstad University, Sweden) and colleagues have published in the journal Marine Ornithology on the passage of seabirds, including the ACAP listed and Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters Puffinus...
R. Costa (Departamento de Biologia & CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal) and colleagues have an in-press paper with the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin that looks at trace element and organic pollutant levels in...
The Portuguese Government has approved the designation of two new marine Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in terms of the European Birds Directive (click here). As well as the approval of the Cabo Raso and Aveiro/Nazaré SPAs, two existing marine SPAs...