Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more albatross and petrel breeding localities become World Heritage Sites?

Fit for World Heritage status: Wandering Albatrosses breed densely in Albatross Valley, Prince Edward Island, photograph by Peter Ryan Note: Opinions expressed in ACAP Monthly Missives are not to be taken as those of the ACAP Secretariat or of any of...
Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii

This Laysan Albatross pair seems safe from climate change 500 m above the sea in the Kuaokala Game Management Area on Oahu, photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation For some years, ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on conservation management...
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters are doing well on Oahu, and new hope for Newell’s Shearwaters on Kauai

Wedge-tailed Shearwaters in the Freeman Seabird Preserve, artwork from Pelagicos The Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica colony within the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu has increased from zero four years...
Towards a new national breeding species: Mexico fledges 34 translocated Black-footed Albatrosses from Isla Guadalupe

All the way from Midway Atoll as an egg: a colour-banded Black-footed Albatross prepares to fledge from Isla Guadalupe; photograph from GECI Thirty-four of the 35 Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks that were translocated to Isla...
Combating climate change: Pacific Rim Conservation’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge and Isla Guadalupe Seabird Translocation Projects

NOTE: The Hawaiian-based environmental NGO Pacific Rim Conservation works to combat the effects of climate change on Hawaii’s procellariform seabirds through its No Net Loss initiative. Two of these species are the ACAP-listed and Near Threatened...
Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf of Pacific Rim Conservation receive the Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award for their efforts to conserve albatrosses

Eric VanderWerf and Lindsay Young band a Laysan Albatross The annual Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award of the American Ornithological Society, honouring extraordinary conservation-related scientific contributions by an individual or small team has...
The Seabird Restoration Database: an on-line tool for practitioners

A Black-footed Albatross between two decoys; photograph by Lindsay Young, Pacific Rim Conservation The recently released Seabird Restoration Database owned and managed by the Hawaiian-based Pacific Rim Conservation is described as “a unique global...
Second year of the Guadalupe translocation to establish a Mexican breeding population of the Black-footed Albatross is underway

A translocated Black-footed Albatross close to fledging gets airborne on Isla Guadalupe in 2021, blue pen drawing by ABUN artist.Snah; after a photograph (see below) by J.A. Soriano, GECI Thirty-five Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks...
Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islands

The 2019 fledgling Short-tailed Albatross (right) returns to Midway Atoll. Its parents are on the left; photograph by Jon Plissner Note: ACAP Latest News aims to post on recent developments and findings in procellariiform science and conservation...
Snowflake plus 26! All the translocated Black-footed Albatrosses have fledged from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island

A translocated Black-footed Albatross fledgling on Isla Guadalupe, photograph by J.A. Soriano, GECI An international Black-footed Albatross translocation project from the USA’s Midway Atoll in Hawaii to Isla Guadalupe in Mexico has met with success in...

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels