Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Laysan Albatrosses commence breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge

The James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu has its first breeding pair of globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis. After three years of social attraction with decoys and a call-broadcasting...
Feral cats are suspected of killing 22 Laysan Albatross chicks on Hawaii’s Kauai Island

Twenty-two Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis chicks have disappeared over the past three weeks from a wildlife refuge on the USA’s island of Kauai, with feral Domestic Cats Felis catus being suspected as the culprits (click here and here). A...
Plans for a new Laysan Albatross colony in the Hawaiian James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge

The Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus is the only seabird currently known to breed within the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Reproductive success is unknown but predation is reported as a limiting...
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...
Helping Laysan Albatrosses and Newell’s Shearwaters in Hawaii: Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project Draft Environmental Assessment now available

A while back, ACAP Latest News reported on plans to build a second predator-proof fence on the Hawaiian island of Kauai as part of the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (click here). The fence (728 m long to enclose a three-hectare area) aims to...
Hawaii’s Laysan Albatrosses to get another predator-proof fence, this time on Kauai

The predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was erected in 2011 has already proven a success with improved breeding within it by both ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters...
Predator-proof fences are helping to protect procellariiform seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels

Predator-proof fences are increasingly being used to keep pests out of area of natural habitats that support threatened species, despite some controversy over their cost-effectiveness. Most fences are erected on the mainland or on inhabited islands...
Pacific Seabird Group to meet 7-10 February 2012 on Oahu, Hawaii

The Pacific Seabird Group will hold its 38th Annual Meeting on the island of Oahu, Hawai'i, over 7-10 February 2012. Attendees at the PSG meeting should have the opportunity to see some North Pacific albatrosses up close for themselves, as Laysan...
The Pacific Seabird Group's next Annual Meeting is to be held in Hawai'i in 2012

North Pacific albatrosses have been in the news of late, especially the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus, with the first American chick doing well on Midway and the first translocated fledgling returning to Mukojima Island. The Pacific...

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Laysan Albatrosses commence breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge

Feral cats are suspected of killing 22 Laysan Albatross chicks on Hawaii’s Kauai Island

Plans for a new Laysan Albatross colony in the Hawaiian James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge

ACAP Breeding Site No. 63. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, home of a Laysan Albatross population

Helping Laysan Albatrosses and Newell’s Shearwaters in Hawaii: Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project Draft Environmental Assessment now available

Hawaii’s Laysan Albatrosses to get another predator-proof fence, this time on Kauai

Predator-proof fences are helping to protect procellariiform seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels

Pacific Seabird Group to meet 7-10 February 2012 on Oahu, Hawaii

The Pacific Seabird Group's next Annual Meeting is to be held in Hawai'i in 2012

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