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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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)...
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...
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...