World Albatross Day 2020 "Eradicating Island Pests" posts

Introduction

The first World Albatross Day was celebrated on 19 June 2020.  Following discussion, and consideration of the main threats facing albatrosses identified in a recent review in the scientific journal Biological Conservation, the theme of eradicating introduced pests at breeding sites of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters was chosen to highlight a continuing, but addressable, problem facing ACAP-listed species, many of which are threatened with extinction unless actions are taken.  Although not all 13 Parties to the Agreement support breeding populations of albatrosses, they are all range states with albatrosses visiting their waters.  Those Parties without breeding populations (including some cooperating non-Party range states) will therefore have an interest in conservation efforts conducted at the breeding sites of species that regularly visit their territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zones - where they will be susceptible to interactions with domestic fishing vessels.

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Scalped!  Globally Endangered Grey-headed Albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma attacked at night by House Mice on Marion Island, photograph by Ben Dilley

"Eradicating Island Pests"

In 2020 attempts were to be made to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on the UK’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic and on the USA’s Midway Atoll in the North Pacific*.  At both localities mice have been attacking and killing albatrosses, as has been regularly reported in ACAP Latest News.  Planning and field work is continuing in 2020 towards eradicating mice on South Africa’s Marion Island and on New Zealand’s Auckland Island (along with its feral cats and pigs).  These, and other pest eradication projects at breeding sites of ACAP-listed species, have been highlighted in the build up to World Albatross Day on 19 June 2020.

*Both now postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reference:

Dias, M.P., Martin, R., Pearmain, E.J., Burfield, A.J., Small, C., Phillips, R.A., Yates, O., Lascelles, B., Garcia Borboroglu, P. & Croxall, J.P. 2019.  Threats to seabirds: a global assessment.  Biological Conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.06.033.

ACAP Latest News posts on World Albatross Day 2020

23-10-20  Michelle Risi, who first proposed a World Albatross Day, is thanked by ACAP

07-10-20  "All for One, One for All - Albatross" painted by Kitty Harvill for World Albatross Day accepted for virtual international exhibit

11-09-20  An ‘Evohe Albicake’ baked at sea misses the World Albatross Day Bake Off

05-08-20   World Albatross Day’s Colouring-in Competition results. Part Two: the Runners Up

03-08-20  “Petey the Albatross” - Runner up in the Great Albicake Bake Off reveals a budding baker

31-07-20  Marine Sciences learners at South Africa’s Protea Heights Academy celebrated the first World Albatross Day with individual creativity

28-07-20  The judges have decided: overall and category winners in the Great Albicake Bake Off for World Albatross Day

24-07-20  People’s choice: the five most-liked albicakes in the inaugural World Albatross Day Bake Off

23-07-20  World Albatross Day 2020 Photography Competition: Winner and Runners-up chosen

15-07-20  World Albatross Day’s Colouring-in Competition results. Part One: the Winners

08-07-20  Turning the Tide for the Albatross: an RSPB story map in support of World Albatross Day

07-07-20  And the winner of the World Albatross Day Banner Challenge is … Alex Dodds on Bird Island!

06-07-20  Susan Dierker makes her children’s book “Albatross of Kaua’i. The Story of Kaloakulua” free online to mark World Albatross Day

01-07-20  Australia raises the threatened status of its endemic Shy Albatross on World Albatross Day

23-06-20  The last World Albatross Day banner for 2020 comes from the Albatross Task Force in Namibia

21-06-20  Antarctica joins the banner challenge on World Albatross Day

19-06-20  BirdLife affiliate Aves Uruguay joins over 50 environmental NGOs in supporting World Albatross Day

19-06-20  Day Five of ‘World Albatross Week 2020’. Featuring Artists & Biologists for Nature

19-06-20  Raising the banner for World Albatross Day in Australia as global celebrations get going today

18-06-20  Mexico’s Guadalupe Island gets a World Albatross Day banner

18-06-20  Day Four of ‘World Albatross Week 2020’. A new World Albatross Day cartoon from Marc Parchow of Qual Albatroz

17-06-20  Nature United in Canada marks the inaugural World Albatross Day this week

17-06-20  Day Three of 'World Albatross Week 2020'. Owen Davey’s poster available for purchase, with donations for albatross conservation

16-06-20  The Oceanic Society supports albatross conservation – and World Albatross Day

16-06-20  Day Two of ‘World Albatross Week 2020’. The Colouring-in Competition gets off to a slow start - so round up your nieces and nephews

15-06-20  Wild Bird Society of Japan, BirdLife national partner, offers support for World Albatross Day

15-06-20  Day One of ‘World Albatross Week 2020’. Leigh Wolfaardt creates a special artwork in celebration 

14-06-20  The National Audubon Society looks forward to celebrating World Albatross Day

14-06-20  The Hawai‘i Wildlife Center rehabilitates albatrosses - and supports World Albatross Day

13-06-20  The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition urges conservation actions on World Albatross Day

13-06-20  Pronatura, Mexico's BirdLife affiliate, offers its support for World Albatross Day

12-06-20  The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds will celebrate the first World Albatross Day next week

12-06-20  The East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership Seabird Working Group writes in support of next week’s World Albatross Day

11-06-20  Last call for entries to World Albatross Day’s Great Albicake Bake Off! 

11-06-20  World Albatross Day Photography Competition “Albatrosses, their World and Threats”

10-06-20  The Nederlandse Zeevogelgroep (Dutch Seabird Group) endorses World Albatross Day on 19 June

10-06-20  South Africa’s Dyer Island Conservation Trust says World Albatross Day “will highlight these incredible species”

09-06-20  Kauai Humane Society’s Save Our Shearwaters will celebrate World Albatross Day this month

08-06-20  Hawaii’s Molokai Land Trust works to create a new Laysan Albatross colony – and offers its support for World Albatross Day

07-06-20  The Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust wholeheartedly endorses World Albatross Day

06-06-20  The World Albatross Day 2020 Banner Challenge: ACAP announces its third competition

04-06-20  Australia displays World Albatross Day banners on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

03-06-20  Aves y Conservación-Birdlife in Ecuador, supports the celebration of World Albatross Day

02-06-20  One for the young: the Albatross Colouring-in Competition will celebrate World Albatross Day

01-06-20  Hawaii’s Kure Atoll advertises World Albatross Day with a ‘virtual banner’

31-05-20  Pacific Rim Conservation interns practice social distancing to display their World Albatross Day art

30-05-20  Researching Black-browed Albatrosses on the South Atlantic’s New Island with a World Albatross Day banner

29-05-20  A new World Albatross Day banner from Bird Island in the South Atlantic

28-05-20  CODEFF, BirdLife in Chile, joins with other South American NGOs in offering its support for World Albatross Day 2020

27-05-20  Kauaʻi Endangered Seabird Recovery Project to celebrate World Albatross Day next month

25-05-20  The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators embraces the arrival of World Albatross Day in 2020

24-05-20  The Pacific Seabird Group joins two other seabird groups in supporting World Albatross Day 2020

22-05-20  World Albatross Day gets a music video of Gough Island's albatrosses

20-05-20  Announcing a World Albatross Day competition: The Great Albicake Bake Off

19-05-20  COVID-19 gets in the way of the World Albatross Day Banner Challenge at New Zealand’s Pukekura/Taiaroa Head

18-05-20  Hawaii’s Kaua’i Albatross Network will celebrate World Albatross Day next month

16-05-20  Hawai’i Pacific University’s Pelagicos Lab supports World Albatross Day 2020

14-05-20  Peru’s Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) offers its support for World Albatross Day

12-05-20  Brazil’s Albatross Task Force takes its World Albatross Day banner to the seashore

10-05-20  Hawaii’s North Shore Community Land Trust supports a breeding colony of Laysan Albatrosses and World Albatross Day

08-05-20  Australia’s Adrift Lab studies seabird pollution – and supports World Albatross Day

06-05-20  Aves Argentinas and its Albatross Task Force work to support World Albatross Day in the face of COVID-19

04-05-20  Wildlife Management International works to conserve ACAP-listed Black Petrels and Chatham Albatrosses – and supports World Albatross Day

02-05-20  The Hawaii Audubon Society joins other Hawaiian NGOs in supporting World Albatross Day

30-04-20  Birds Canada/Oiseaux Canada, BirdLife national partner, welcomes World Albatross Day 2020

28-04-20   The Kure Atoll Conservancy supports the inauguration of World Albatross Day on 19 June

27-04-20  The USA’s Cornell Lab of Ornithology endorses World Albatross Day 2020

25-04-20  A well-travelled World Albatross Day banner gets to Rosemary Rock, New Zealand's northernmost albatross colony

23-04-20  Torishima, volcanic home of the Short-tailed Albatross, marks World Albatross Day with a banner

21-04-20   The Friends of Kauaʻi Wildlife Refuges gets behind World Albatross Day 2020

19-04-20  SAVE Brasil, BirdLife partner, lends its support to this year’s World Albatross Day

17-04-20  The University of Oxford’s Edward Grey Institute joins other prestigious ornithological institutes in supporting World Albatross Day 2020

16-04-20  Completing a World Heritage Site: New Zealand’s Antipodes Island gets its own World Albatross Banner despite COVID-19 

14-04-20  Birds New Zealand supports World Albatross Day as it publishes on the birds of the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands

13-04-20  Japan’s Yamashina Institute for Ornithology lends it support to World Albatross Day 2020

08-04-20  Seven World Albatross Day 2020 Posters from Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature are now available electronically for printing

06-04-20  New Zealand’s World Albatross Day banner is photographed with Buller’s Albatrosses on the Snares Islands

04-04-20  The Chinese Wild Bird Federation supports World Albatross Day 2020

01-04-20   ‘Flight of the Albatross’. A music video by Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature on behalf of World Albatross Day, 19 June 2020

31-03-20   Japan takes a World Albatross Day banner to the Short-tailed Albatross translocation site on Mukojima

30-03-20   Another BirdLife partner, this time Spain, lends its support to World Albatross Day

29-03-20  Friends of Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge is excited to celebrate the inaugural World Albatross Day!

26-03-20   Internationally renowned FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology lends its support to World Albatross Day

24-03-20   The World Albatross Day Banner at Sea Challenge reaches South Africa

19-03-20  The conservation team on Midway Atoll helps advertise World Albatross Day

18-03-20  “Silent Slaughter”. The Chatham Albatross series for World Albatross Day by Eva-Cherie Artz

12-03-20  Mary Ingrum, mixed-media artist, creates "PLIGHT of the Albatross" for World Albatross Day

10-03-20  New Zealand’s well-travelled World Albatross Day banner gets to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands

06-03-20  An exhibition marking World Albatross Day on 19 June is being constructed at the National Museum of Natural History, Mdina – Malta

01-03-20  Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile, desert storm petrels and World Albatross Day

29-02-20  Australia’s Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association joins a growing community of environmental organizations supporting World Albatross Day

28-02-20  The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, the Balearic Shearwater and World Albatross Day

21-02-20  The United Kingdom’s Seabird Group will celebrate World Albatross Day with ACAP

18-02-20  University interns help the ACAP Secretariat with translations for yet another year; this time in support of World Albatross Day

17-02-20  The Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge gives its views on World Albatross Day 2020

11-02-20  BirdLife International’s Chief Executive, Patricia Zurita supports World Albatross Day on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

10-02-20  Mexico’s Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas supports World Albatross Day by helping conserve the most easterly-breeding Laysan Albatrosses

03-02-20  Bird Island in the South Atlantic gets its WAD2020 Banner out again for the summer

31-01-20  The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds joins other BirdLife national partners in supporting World Albatross Day 2020

29-01-20  ACAP works towards increasing awareness of the inaugural World Albatross Day on 19 June

27-01-20  Crossing the Equator: the WAD2020 Banner Challenge reaches Midway Atoll

23-01-20  Oikonos talks to ACAP Latest News on its "Winged Ambassadors: Ocean Literacy Through the Eyes of Albatross” programme and World Albatross Day

21-01-20  BirdLife International’s Albatross Task Force in Chile is fully onboard with World Albatross Day 2020

17-01-20  Three photographers donate use of their albatross images to support ACAP and World Albatross Day

15-01-20  New Zealand’s Forest & Bird will be celebrating this year’s inauguration of World Albatross Day

13-01-20  Island Conservation will support World Albatross Day by helping eradicate House Mice on Gough and Midway Islands this year

08-01-20  A WAD2020 banner gets to Grey-headed Albatross Ridge on Marion Island

06-01-20  Rising to the challenge: Steeple Jason in the South Atlantic gets a World Albatross Day banner

03-01-20  Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature and ACAP collaborate over this year’s World Albatross Day

01-01-20  Gough Island’s embattled birdlife and World Albatross Day, an albatross researcher speaks

30-12-19  Racing to save the Antipodean Albatross with Live Ocean

25-12-19  New Zealand’s WAD2020 Banner gets to Campbell Island – but does not come back

23-12-19  Humane Society International Australia is a World Albatross Day supporter

20-12-19  New Zealand’s Southern Seabird Solutions Trust writes about World Albatross Day, 2020

18-12-19  World Albatross Day and the Gough Island Restoration Programme

13-12-19  Brazil’s Projeto Albatroz is helping promote World Albatross Day

11-12-19  France’s BirdLife partner, LPO, with 55 000 members, writes about World Albatross Day

09-12-19  Award-winning illustrator, Owen Davey, creates a poster for World Albatross Day 2020

07-12-19  France completes the sub-Antarctic hat-trick: a World Albatross Day banner gets displayed on Kerguelen

06-12-19  Australia joins other national BirdLife partners in supporting World Albatross Day

30-11-19  World Albatross Day gains recognition from Peruvian NGO, ProDelphinus

25-11-19  The President and Chief Officers of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research share their thoughts on next year’s inaugural World Albatross Day

22-11-19  A South Atlantic NGO lends its support to next year's World Albatross Day

20-11-19  The World Seabird Union joins other NGOs in lending its support to next year’s World Albatross Day

18-11-19  World Albatross Day on the Bounty Islands: New Zealand joins the banner challenge

12-11-19  In their own words. ACAP’s Working Group Convenors signal their support for next year’s World Albatross Day

29-10-19  The Australasian Seabird Group lends its support to World Albatross Day's inauguration in 2020

25-10-19  BirdLife South Africa to celebrate World Albatross Day and its “Eradicating Island Pests” theme in 2020

19-10-19  Qual Albatroz! World Albatross Day cartoons are now available in all three ACAP languages

14-10-19  Possession and Marion: two more sub-Antarctic islands support next year’s inaugural World Albatross Day with banners

11-10-19  World Albatross Day adopts an official logo

08-10-19  The American Bird Conservancy will support World Albatross Day activities next year

04-10-19  “Albatrosses are magnificent and unique birds”. The Convention on Migratory Species’ Acting Executive Secretary, Amy Fraenkel supports Word Albatross Day

01-10-19  In the service of conservation: support for World Albatross Day comes from five wildlife artists

19-09-19  World Albatross Day’s theme for its inaugural year of Eradicating Island Pests receives support from international restoration experts

17-09-19  France's Amsterdam Island joins the Word Albatross Day ‘Banner Challenge’

12-09-19  Four children’s book authors support next year's World Albatross Day

09-09-19  Bird Island responds to the World Albatross Day banner challenge

19-08-19  Honouring past marine ornithologists on World Albatross Day on 19 June: a call for names

16-08-19  Marc Parchow's Qual Albatroz cartoons are helping raise awareness of next year's World Albatross Day

12-07-19  World Albatross Day issues a banner challenge

19-06-19  ACAP proposes a World Albatross Day to increase global awareness of the conservation crisis facing albatrosses and petrels

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