Shy Albatross on Australia's Albatross Island, photograph by Drew Lee The Australasian Seabird Group (ASG) offers small grants to support projects of current science students or those who have recently (within three years) finished postgraduate studies...
The New Zealand Journal of Ecology has published a special issue (Vol 40, No. 2; 2016) containing eight open-access papers that discuss the roles of rats on seabird islands, including a number that support breeding populations of procellariiforms....
Filming for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens took place over two weeks during the seabird breeding season on the uninhabited Irish island of Skellig Michael. The island lies 12 km off the coast of County Kelly in south-west Ireland and is a...
The Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) informs of a new funding opportunity. The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund supports the protection of endangered species. The grant promotes...
coordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. The Group organises regular international conferences and provides small grants towards research and survey projects. The Group actively encourages its members to get involved in surveys of seabirds and...
Bioacoustics, including play-back of calls, have been used to assess the presence and population sizes of burrowing seabirds, including the ACAP-listed Procellaria petrels. An opportunity now exists to support such research by applying for a product...
Sooty Shearwater, photograph by John Graham Grant Humphries (Farallon Institute, Pataluma, California, USA) and colleagues have written in PICES Press on using information from seabirds to predict climate events such as El Niño in the Pacific Ocean....
In 2014 ACAP made a grant to New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to undertake a population estimate of the White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis on Disappointment Island, Auckland Islands. The field work...
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the United States has reported the incidental take of a globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus in the logline fishery of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI)....
The EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) of Existence programme of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) highlights and conserves one-of–a-kind species that are on the verge of extinction. The EDGE Fellowship Programme aims to...