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Pacific Rim Conservation interns practice social distancing to display their World Albatross Day art
Pacific Rim Conservation is a non-profit organization based on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Founded in 2006, it undertakes and supports research-based management on native species, particularly birds. The PSG’s mission is to maintain and restore native...
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 93. Mukojima, Ogasawara Islands: a Short-tailed Albatross translocation site
Short-tailed Albatrosses gather around a chick on Mukojima Mukojima (commonly known as Keta Island) is located in the northernmost part of the Japanese Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands south of Japan and about 60 km north of the inhabited island of...
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ACAP Breeding Sites
Introduction In February 2013, ACAP Latest News commenced posting a series of brief accounts describing breeding sites of ACAP-listed species. In considering what constitutes a breeding site, differences in conservation management procedures have been...
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Japan takes a World Albatross Day banner to the Short-tailed Albatross translocation site on Mukojima
Taiki Terajima (left) and Teru Yuta pose with their ‘WAD2020’ banner behind a Black-footed Albatross chick on Mukojima Teru Yuta, a Researcher in the Division of Avian Conservation of Japan’s Yamashina Institute for Ornithology leads on the...
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Friends of Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge is excited to celebrate the inaugural World Albatross Day!
Friends of Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge (FoHI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting you with the nature and culture of the USA's Northwestern Hawaiian Islands through education and outreach. We represent the Hawaiian...
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Pacific Rim Conservation to host a Seabird Translocation Workshop in Hawaii next year
Pacific Rim Conservation will host a free three-day workshop on seabird translocation and social attraction on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu over 19-21 May 2020. The number of participants will be limited to 25. The emphasis will be on “the nuts and...
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Establishing Black-footed and Laysan Albatross colonies by translocation and social attraction
Eric Vanderwerf (Pacific Rim Conservation, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation on a project to create new colonies of Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P....
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Presentations on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels and on seabird bycatch at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 46th Annual Meeting
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 46th Annual Meeting on the Hawaiian island of Kauai from 27 February to 3 March 2019. A list by senior author and title follows of presentations made at the meeting that considered ACAP-listed species and also seabird...
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Hope for a new colony: two Black-footed Albatrosses seen courting within the Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve
Two Black-footed Albatrosses Phoebastria nigripes are being seen regularly within the Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, according to a Facebook posting by the NGO Pacific Rim Conservation which monitors breeding Laysan...
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Year three translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks to start a new colony is underway in Hawaii
Twenty-five Black-footed Albatrosses Phoebastria nigripes (Near Threatened) chicks were translocated from Midway Atoll to within a predator-proof fence in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on 16 February this...
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