Combating climate change: Pacific Rim Conservation’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge and Isla Guadalupe Seabird Translocation Projectshttps://acap.aq/latest-news/combating-climate-change-pacific-rim-conservation-s-james-campbell-national-wildlife-refuge-and-isla-guadalupe-seabird-translocation-projects

17 June 2022 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...

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Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf of Pacific Rim Conservation receive the Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award for their efforts to conserve albatrosseshttps://acap.aq/latest-news/lindsay-young-and-eric-vanderwerf-of-pacific-rim-conservation-receive-the-ralph-w-schreiber-conservation-award-for-their-efforts-to-conserve-albatrosses

30 May 2022 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...

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The Seabird Restoration Database: an on-line tool for practitionershttps://acap.aq/latest-news/the-seabird-restoration-database-an-on-line-tool-for-practitioners

23 May 2022 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...

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Second year of the Guadalupe translocation to establish a Mexican breeding population of the Black-footed Albatross is underwayhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/second-year-of-the-guadalupe-translocation-to-establish-a-mexican-breeding-population-of-the-black-footed-albatross-is-underway

25 April 2022 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...

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Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islandshttps://acap.aq/latest-news/updates-on-the-conservation-of-albatrosses-in-the-hawaiian-islands

09 February 2022 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...

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Snowflake plus 26! All the translocated Black-footed Albatrosses have fledged from Mexico’s Guadalupe Islandhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/snowflake-plus-26-all-the-translocated-black-footed-albatrosses-have-fledged-from-mexico-s-guadalupe-island

13 July 2021 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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Repeating last year’s achievement – the first translocated Black-footed Albatross chick on Oahu fledges on World Albatross Dayhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/repeating-last-year-s-achievement-the-first-translocated-black-footed-albatross-chick-fledges-on-world

23 June 2021 Ready to fledge: a translocated Black-footed Albatross rests betweem two adult decoys; photograph by Leilani Fowlke, Pacific Rim Conservation The first Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes (Near Threatened) of the current cohort of translocated...

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Mexico fledges ‘Snowflake’, its first ever Black-footed Albatross, in time for World Albatross Dayhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/mexico-fledges-snowflake-its-first-ever-black-footed-albatross-in-time-for-world-albatross-day

18 June 2021 Post No. 6 for ‘WADWEEK2021’ In the air and ready to fledge with its metal and colour bands: a translocated Black-footed Albatross on Isla Guadalupe - with a guano-splattered decoy watching on The first globally Near Threatened Black-footed Albatross...

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Black-foots from USA to Mexico: first international albatross translocation is underwayhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/black-foots-from-usa-to-mexico-first-international-albatross-translocation-is-underway

18 March 2021 A long-term conservation project: “Reintroduction of Black-footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) from Midway Atoll National Refuge, USA to Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, Mexico” has been initiated by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service...

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A new colony gets underway. Wild Laysan Albatrosses are breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refugehttps://acap.aq/latest-news/a-new-colony-gets-underway-wild-laysan-albatrosses-are-breeding-in-hawaii-s-james-campbell-national-wildlife-refuge

17 December 2020 A wild Laysan Albatross incubates its egg in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, photograph by Lindsay Young A three-year project over 2015/16 to 2017/18 by the environmental NGO Pacific Rim Conservation (PRC) to create a new colony from 50...

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