Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Habitat Restoration is the theme for the 7th World Albatross Day celebrations today

Gough Island is reflected in the eye of an Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlorohynchos, artwork and poster design by by Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature co-founder, Kitty Harvill, after photographs by Chris Jones and...
Day Six of ‘WADWEEK2026’. Suggestions for themes for future World Albatross Days welcomed

“A New Dawn”. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross and Gough Island by Deepti Jain of Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN), after photographs by Chris Jones and Laurie Smaglick Johnson Tomorrow is the Seventh World Albatross Day to be celebrated by...
Artificial light and Hawaii’s threatened Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels

Fall out of 636 Wedge-tailed Shearwaters on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 2024, from the report A 174-page report from the state of Hawaii’s Dark Night Skies Protection Advisory Committee released this month proposes to regulate artificial light use...
A volunteer group in Wales rescues Manx Shearwaters downed by gales

A Manx Shearwater gets rescued from the sea at Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire, Wales Manx Shearwater Rescue Pembrokeshire collects stranded Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus along the Welsh coast to release back to sea according to a feature article...
Bird Storm! At-sea light pollution affects shearwaters, fulmars and storm petrels in the North Pacific

A bird storm of Fork-tailed Storm Petrels Hydrobates furcatus strikes the R/V Tiĝlax̂ near Kasatochi Island in 2003, photograph by Jeff Williams, USFWS Kelly Kapsar (Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing,...
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...
Relief for Kaikōura’s Hutton Shearwaters as LED streetlights will start to be fitted

Victims of bright lights and a vehicle. A Hutton’s Shearwater is killed on a Kaikōura street Shearwaters, and especially their fledglings, are particularly at risk of being downed by light pollution, notably from bright streetlighting, when they can be...
THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Seven months researching albatrosses and restoring habitats on Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll) in the North Pacific

Two Black-footed Albatrosses (ka‘upu) court at sunset on Hōlanikū Note. It has been some time since a guest has written and illustrated an ACAP Monthly Missive. Here is one by Isabelle Beaudoin, an aspiring seabird biologist who is currently on Kure...
Proposed mine could threaten New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels

Light pollution from a mine proposed near the only breeding site for New Zealand's Westland Petrel could impact the species. A Westland Petrel fledgling; photograph by Bruce Stuart-Menteath There is concern New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels...
Study finds light pollution from ships reduces colony attendance in Yelkouan Shearwaters

A Yelkouan Shearwater; photo by Milko Marchetti (canva.com) A study on colony attendance in Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan exposed to light pollution from ships by Martin Austad (Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Group, Department...

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Habitat Restoration is the theme for the 7th World Albatross Day celebrations today

Day Six of ‘WADWEEK2026’. Suggestions for themes for future World Albatross Days welcomed

Artificial light and Hawaii’s threatened Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels

A volunteer group in Wales rescues Manx Shearwaters downed by gales

Bird Storm! At-sea light pollution affects shearwaters, fulmars and storm petrels in the North Pacific

Hutton’s Shearwaters and light pollution from dairy farms - a newly reported threat

Relief for Kaikōura’s Hutton Shearwaters as LED streetlights will start to be fitted

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Seven months researching albatrosses and restoring habitats on Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll) in the North Pacific

Proposed mine could threaten New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels

Study finds light pollution from ships reduces colony attendance in Yelkouan Shearwaters

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