Loading the bait bucket on Amsterdam Island At the end of May this year ACAP Latest News reported on preparations for the eradication of the introduced Norway Rats Rattus norvegicus and House Mice Mus musculus on France’s Amsterdam Island in the...
Organizers and contributing artists gather in the Nature Centre of the Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park on 07 July, the last day of a three-week exhibition held as part of the World Albatross Day and Seabird Week held over 15-21 June. The Short-tailed...
at the ACAP website, here. Funding for the HPAI workshop and the Plenary Talk at IAPC7 was provided through the ACAP Secondment Programme which supports science and research collaboration between ACAP Parties to aid in the conservation of the...
threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) also took place, two of which were supported by ACAP through its Secondment Programme. Dr Bogle's presentation, 20 years of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, is...
Osbert Salvin FRS (25 February 1835 - 1 June 1898) Salvin’s Albatross Thalassarche salvini was named after the 19th Century English ornithologist and entomologist Osbert Salvin FRS by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild in 1893 (as Thalassogeron salvini sp....
H5N1 Avian Influenza Outbreak” (click here for its description). The workshop is being supported by the ACAP Secondment Programme. It is to be a hybrid model, with interested persons not attending the IAPC7 being able to follow the workshop virtually....
Albatrosses and petrels throng to the net of a trawl vessel; photograph courtesy of Save our Seabirds Two papers focused on the recent Marine Stewardship Council Fisheries Standard Review have been published in the journal Marine Policy. Stephanie Good...
Motuhara/Forty-Fours from the air, photograph by Barry Baker Peter Frost (Science Support Service, Whanganui, New Zealand) has reported to the Department of Conservation’s Conservation Service Programme on recent aerial surveys of Northern Royal...
Pointillist portrait of Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine by ABUN artist Holly Parsons for ACAP’s World Albatross Day on 19 June, after a photograph by Jonathon Plissner. Geraldine is the darker bird in front on the nest. Acrylic on...
The Tristan Marine Protection Zone. Infographic from Atlantic Guardians A 687 247-km² Marine Protection Zone (MPZ) around the UK’s Tristan da Cunha-Gough Islands in the South Atlantic that includes its entire Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) was...