Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

UPDATED Mystery chick found on Nakodojima: a sixth breeding locality for the Short-tailed Albatross?

The Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus breeds mainly on the Japanese island of Torishima (Izu Islands) and on Minami-kojima in the disputed Senkaku Islands. A single STAL pair has bred successfully several times on Eastern Island,...
ACAP Breeding Site No. 68. Laysan Island and its albatrosses form part of USA’s Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument

One of the USA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NHWI) in the North Pacific, Laysan Island is a raised coral atoll with a central 70-ha hypersaline lake. Its area is about 4 km² (1.6 by 2.4 km); it is one of the largest islands in the NHWI chain. The...
ACAP Breeding Site No. 65. Torishima, where Short-tailed Albatrosses have survived both feather collectors and an active volcano

Torishima (“bird island” in Japanese) is located in the southern tip of the Izu Island chain in the western Pacific, approximately 600 km to the south of Tokyo, Japan, to which country it belongs. It is a volcanic island approximately 2.5 km across...
ACAP Breeding Site No. 63. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, home of a Laysan Albatross population

The Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (KPNWR) was established on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1985 to preserve its seabird breeding colonies. It was expanded in 1988 to include Crater Hill and Mokolea Point. The publically-accessible 82-ha...
A translocation exercise to establish a second Chatham Albatross colony gets funded

The Chatham Island Taiko Trust announced last week it has received funding to transfer ACAP-listed and Vulnerable Chatham Albatrosses Thalassarche eremita to New Zealand’s Main Chatham Island with the aim of establishing a second breeding colony....
Albatrosses and petrels listed within international treaties, No. 4. Bilateral conventions for the protection of migratory birds involving the USA

Four separate bilateral conventions for the protection of migratory birds exist between the United States of America and Canada, Japan, Mexico and Russia. These four conventions protect migratory birds that occur in both countries at some time during...
Translocation and hand-rearing techniques for threatened albatrosses

Tomohiro Deguchi (Division of Avian Conservation, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Japan) and colleagues writing on-line in the journal Bird Conservation International describe the techniques they have developed to translocate three species of...
UPDATED 26 June: World Heritage Convention inscribes Japan's Ogasawara Islands, good news for Short-tailed Albatrosses

On Friday 24 June the World Heritage Committee meeting in its 35th Session in Paris, France inscribed the Ogasawara Islands, Japanese islands situated some 1000 km south of the country's main archipelago, on UNESCO's World Heritage List for the wealth...
SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

LATEST INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS **16 March: For more information and photographs on the effects of the tsunami on the albatrosses of Midway Atoll click here and visit Pete Leary's blog Pete at Midway. **18 March: Visit...
Translocated Short-tailed and Black-footed Albatrosses continue to do well on Japan's Mukojima Island

The numbers of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus have increased to more than 2500 through the past 50 years of conservation efforts, but their only two remaining breeding sites, Torishima Island and the Senkaku Islands, have a...

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UPDATED Mystery chick found on Nakodojima: a sixth breeding locality for the Short-tailed Albatross?

ACAP Breeding Site No. 68. Laysan Island and its albatrosses form part of USA’s Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument

ACAP Breeding Site No. 65. Torishima, where Short-tailed Albatrosses have survived both feather collectors and an active volcano

ACAP Breeding Site No. 63. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, home of a Laysan Albatross population

A translocation exercise to establish a second Chatham Albatross colony gets funded

Albatrosses and petrels listed within international treaties, No. 4. Bilateral conventions for the protection of migratory birds involving the USA

Translocation and hand-rearing techniques for threatened albatrosses

UPDATED 26 June: World Heritage Convention inscribes Japan's Ogasawara Islands, good news for Short-tailed Albatrosses

SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

Translocated Short-tailed and Black-footed Albatrosses continue to do well on Japan's Mukojima Island

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