• Peru appoints a new National Contact Point for ACAP

    Peru's new National Contact Point for ACAP is Councillor Elizabeth González Porturas of the Ministry for External Relations. She replaces Councillor Vladimiro Beteta who also works for the Peruvian Ministry for External Relations. ACAP welcomes the...

  • New ACAP National Contact Points appointed by three Parties

    The ACAP Secretariat has recently been advised of the appointment of three new National Contact Points for the following Parties to the Agreement. A warm welcome to ACAP is extended to them all. CHILE Sra Karin Mundnich Wiegold Unidad de Asuntos...

  • Registration for the First World Seabird Conference now open

    Plasticity and Microevolution Spatial Ecology at Sea: Opportunities and Challenges for Seabird Marine Protected Areas Contact Patrick Jodice of the Scientific Programme Committee for submission details. 19 February 2010

  • ACAP appoints Dr Wiesława Misiak as its First Science Officer

    with her appointment and looks forward to continuing to work with the many people with whom she has already been in contact - and to meet and correspond with many more towards the conservation of albatrosses and petrels in the years ahead. John Cooper,...

  • Automated cameras are watching Southern Giant Petrels in Antarctica this summer

    base Davis. This news is announced in an article by Ian Hay, the AAD's Senior Policy Officer (and Australia's National Contact person for ACAP) in the latest edition of the Australian Antarctic Magazine, which is available both on-line and in hard copy...

  • ACAP gets its own offices in Hobart

    ACAP Advisory Committee and Warren Papworth, ACAP Executive Secretary to his left and Valeria Carvajal, ACAP's National Contact Point for Chile, to the far right. Photograph by Wiesława Misiak, ACAP Science Officer The Tasmanian Government, through the...

  • Newsletters on procellariiform seabirds and bycatch issues

    of BirdLife International's Marine Programme. No. 1 undated but issued October 2005. Current issue No.15, July 2019. Contact: Rory Crawford @ rory.crawford@rspb.org.uk Seabird Conservation Newsletter Newsletter of the IAATO - Save the Albatross...

  • APECO releases video about mortality of Waved Albatrosses at sea

    species occurring in the waters off Peru and Ecuador, and considered to be Critically Endangered. For more information, contact Liliana Ayala (APECO) or Raul Sanchez-Scaglioni. Click here for more news of APECO's work with seabirds. News from Juan Pablo...

  • Call for Project Applications for ACAP funding 2009

    open on 10 June 2009 and close on 3 July 2009. Completed application forms are to be submitted to relevant ACAP National Contact Pointsin either paper or electronic format. Applications from international organisations may be submitted directly to the...

  • All albatross species now listed under international agreement

    of further capacity-building initiatives, particularly in the transference of knowledge and the building of partnerships. Contact: Mr Warren Papworth Executive Secretary Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels Email: Warren Papworth Web...


The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to their populations.

About ACAP

ACAP Secretariat

119 Macquarie St
Hobart TAS 7000
Australia

Email: secretariat@acap.aq
Tel: +61 3 6165 6674