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Habitat Restoration is the theme for the 7th World Albatross Day celebrations today
includes such activities as eradication or control of introduced plants and animals at breeding sites, reducing light pollution, provision of predator-proof fences, establishment of new breeding colonies by attraction techniques and translocations of...
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Day Six of ‘WADWEEK2026’. Suggestions for themes for future World Albatross Days welcomed
face. At varying levels of significance for the different ACAP-listed species, threats, real and potential, include light pollution at sea and on land, offshore structures (oil rigs and wind farms) and human disturbance and exploitation. These threats...
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What happens to Black Petrels in their first year at sea? A tracking study aims to find out
than 5,000 breeding pairs remaining, they face growing pressures at sea, from fisheries bycatch and climate change to light pollution and changing ocean conditions. The ultimate goal is to chart a course for recovery and protection of this on the brink...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. A review of land-based threats to pelagic seabirds in the Atlantic Ocean identifies Gough Island as a high priority for action
their life-cycles, including land-based threats during their breeding season such as invasive species, diseases, or light pollution. Here we assess the timing, scope, and severity of land-based threats to populations of highly mobile petrels,...
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The Live Ocean Foundation helps fund 49 trackers for the ACAP-listed Black Petrel
Petrel is considered to be one of New Zealand’s most at-risk seabirds, facing threats from fishing bycatch, predation, light pollution and habitat loss. The project wished to raise funds for 20 GPS trackers to follow fledgling Black Petrels on their...
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Artificial light and Hawaii’s threatened Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels
eight species, all burrowing procellariiforms, that breed on Hawaiian Islands and are considered highly vulnerable to light pollution. They are: Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli (Critically Endangered) Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis...
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The Live Ocean Foundation is working to help conserve the ACAP-listed Black Petrel
Petrel is considered to be one of New Zealand’s most at-risk seabirds, facing threats from fishing bycatch, predation, light pollution and habitat loss. The project wishes to raise funds for 20 GPS trackers to follow fledgling Black Petrels on their...
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A volunteer group in Wales rescues Manx Shearwaters downed by gales
The volunteer group also rescues birds away from the coast that have been blown inland by gales or affected by light pollution. On 1 November the group held its first “Manx Shearwater Farewell” on Newgale Beach. Attendants listened to a poem specially...
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Bird Storm! At-sea light pollution affects shearwaters, fulmars and storm petrels in the North Pacific
have published open access in the journal Conservation Biology on seabird-vessel interaction risk, notably from light pollution in Alaskan waters. Taxa affected included Ardenna shearwaters, Northern Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis and storm petrels. The...
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Hutton’s Shearwaters and light pollution from dairy farms - a newly reported threat
A well-lit Kaikoura dairy farm as cows wait to be milked before dawn What seems to be a previously unidentified threat has been reported for the globally Endangered Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni, a species endemic to the Kaikoura region of New...
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