Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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...
Japan nominates the Ogasawara Islands to the World Heritage Convention

Japan has nominated its Ogasawara Islands to the World Heritage Convention. Both Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis (20 pairs in the Mukojima Group) and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses (c. 1000 pairs in the Mukojima and Hahajima Groups)...
Translocated Short-tailed Albatross chick from Japan photographed off California five months later UPDATED

On 12 October 2009 a pelagic birdwatching trip off San Francisco, California, USA was treated to a prized sighting of a Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus. But at the time, they didn’t know just how special the bird was. According to Japan’s...
Short-tailed Albatross Recovery Team to hold open session in Cape Town

The meeting of the Short-tailed Albatross Recovery Team (START 4), to be held in Cape Town immediately before the Fourth International Albatross and Petrel Conference, will commence with a public presentation session. All interested persons are welcome...

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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

Japan nominates the Ogasawara Islands to the World Heritage Convention

Translocated Short-tailed Albatross chick from Japan photographed off California five months later UPDATED

Short-tailed Albatross Recovery Team to hold open session in Cape Town

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