Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Wisdom is back and breeding with a new mate!

“Wisdom and her mate talk to their newly laid egg" ACAP Latest News has reported many times over the years on the fortunes of Wisdom, the 70-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastrai immutabilis – and the world’s oldest known wild bird – on her home of...
ACAP releases a Species Infographic for the White-chinned Petrel, the 17th and latest in the series

The latest ACAP Species Infographic released today, the 17th to be produced in the 31-species series, is for the Vulnerable White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis. It is the second to be produced for an ACAP-listed petrel, following that for...
Island Invasives 2026, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland | Aotearoa New Zealand, 9-13 February 2026

Island Invasives 2026 Charting the Future will be the fourth conference in the Island Invasives series that commenced with the title “Turning the Tide: the Eradication of Island Invasives” in Auckland, New Zealand in 2001. The second and third...
UPDATED WITH A VIDEO. The aerial baiting of Amsterdam Island targeting its introduced rodents has been completed

The bait-spreading bucket is lowered to the ground to be reloaded with cereal bait, photograph by Lucie Pichot The project RECI (Restauration des écosystèmes insulaires de l’océan Indien; Restoration of Insular Ecosystems of the Indian Ocean) has...
ACAP's Secondment Programme opens for applications

Successful applicants to ACAP's Secondment Programme, clockwise from top left: Four of the fourteen members of the ACAP HPAI H5Nx Intersessional Group; photo supplied: ACAP Secondee Maximiliano Hernandez from Argentina (right); photograph courtesy of...
ACAP Small Grant 2023-06

Multi-sensor assessment of fine-scale fisheries overlap and bycatch risk of Southern Buller’s Albatross across life history stages Project Leader: Jonathan Rutter, University of Oxford Department of Biology, United Kingdom Co-investigators: Igor...
** VOTING NOW OPEN! ** Once again New Zealand’s Bird of the Year lists the Endangered Antipodean Albatross as a candidate for your vote

Antipodean Albatross by Lea Finke for World Albatross Day 2020, after a photograph by Kirk Zufelt New Zealand’s annual Bird of the Year competition for 2024 (“BOTY2024”) commences on Monday 02 September, with voting based on an instant runoff system...
The Laysan Albatrosses of Kauai have had a good breeding year

A Laysan Albatross chick gets close to fledging, photograph by Hob Osterlund The Laysan Albatrosses or Mōlī Phoebastria immutabilis have just come off a good breeding year on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, a distinct improvement over the previous...
The Mouse-Free Marion Project releases its 10th Quarterly Newsletter – and there is lots of interest to read!

Fatally attacked by Marion Island’s introduced House Mice, this Wandering Albatross chick soon died of its injuries, photograph by Vanessa Stephen, 06 July 2024 NOTE: The following article is prepublished from the website of the Mouse-Free Marion...
Seabird safe rescue techniques, toolbox approaches to seabird bycatch reduction and a novel electronic monitoring device for compliance all under review at ACAP’s Seabird Bycatch Working Group meeting

Nigel Brothers took to the floor to present his paper, "Minimum Weight at the Hook Allowance of 50 g Inclusive of Hook Weight for Pelagic Longlines" The Twelfth Meeting of ACAP’s Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG12) concluded its second day of...

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Wisdom is back and breeding with a new mate!

ACAP releases a Species Infographic for the White-chinned Petrel, the 17th and latest in the series

Island Invasives 2026, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland | Aotearoa New Zealand, 9-13 February 2026

UPDATED WITH A VIDEO. The aerial baiting of Amsterdam Island targeting its introduced rodents has been completed

ACAP's Secondment Programme opens for applications

ACAP Small Grant 2023-06

VOTING NOW OPEN! Once again New Zealand’s Bird of the Year lists the Endangered Antipodean Albatross as a candidate for your vote

The Laysan Albatrosses of Kauai have had a good breeding year

The Mouse-Free Marion Project releases its 10th Quarterly Newsletter – and there is lots of interest to read!

Seabird safe rescue techniques, toolbox approaches to seabird bycatch reduction and a novel electronic monitoring device for compliance all under review at ACAP’s Seabird Bycatch Working Group meeting

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels