Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Help rear translocated albatrosses and petrels in Hawaii next year: interns wanted

Pacific Rim Conservation (PRC), a conservation NGO based in Hawaii, is looking for up to three non-paid and self-supported interns to participate in its Seabird Restoration Program. The project is based at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on...
Translocations of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses in Hawaii; a case study

Eric Vanderwerf and colleagues of Pacific Rim Conservation have published a case study that describes their work translocating eggs and chicks of Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses in an endeavour to create a new...
First hand-reared Laysan Albatross returns to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge as a three-year old

The first Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis hand-reared from an egg translocated from Kauai has returned to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on Oahu in the Hawaiian islands after three years at sea in the North Pacific Ocean. VIO6, a...
Second year of translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks to higher ground gets underway in Hawaii

In February 2017 15 globally Near Threatened Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks were translocated by air from the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve for hand rearing in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian...
Laysan Albatrosses commence breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge

The James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu has its first breeding pair of globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis. After three years of social attraction with decoys and a call-broadcasting...
Another “high-rise” colony for Laysan Albatrosses planned, this time on Molokai

The American Bird Conservancy, Molokai Land Trust, Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project , Pacific Rim Conservation and The Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi are working together to set up a social attraction site for globally Near Threatened Laysan...
From low to high: translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks from Midway to Oahu to combat sea-level rise

ACAP Latest News has previously reported on plans to move Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks from low-lying Midway Atoll to be artificially reared in the James Campbell Wildlife Refuge on Oahu. The aim of the project is to create a new...
UPDATED: Third year of translocating Laysan Albatrosses to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge gets underway

In the last two years fertile eggs of the Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis from the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands on the Hawaiian island of Kauai have been collected and following artificial incubation and fostering, the ensuing...
From Midway to Oahu by jet: 15 Black-footed Albatross chicks to be translocated in 2017

Megan Dalton, a biologist with the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation, writes in the latest issue of Gooney Gazette II, the newsletter of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve (FOMA), on plans to establish a colony of globally Near...
Translocated Laysan Albatrosses are doing well for the second season in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on Oahu

The second season of hand-rearing Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis artificially hatched from translocated eggs on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu is going well. Twenty chicks (from eggs collected on the nearby island of Kauai) are now being hand...

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Help rear translocated albatrosses and petrels in Hawaii next year: interns wanted

Translocations of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses in Hawaii; a case study

First hand-reared Laysan Albatross returns to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge as a three-year old

Second year of translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks to higher ground gets underway in Hawaii

Laysan Albatrosses commence breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge

Another “high-rise” colony for Laysan Albatrosses planned, this time on Molokai

From low to high: translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks from Midway to Oahu to combat sea-level rise

UPDATED: Third year of translocating Laysan Albatrosses to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge gets underway

From Midway to Oahu by jet: 15 Black-footed Albatross chicks to be translocated in 2017

Translocated Laysan Albatrosses are doing well for the second season in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on Oahu

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels