The USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries project “Preventing Migratory Seabird Mortality in U.S. West Coast Groundfish Longline Fisheries” is the 2015 recipient of the Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship...
Animals (CMS) has announced two new funding opportunities. “The first one is within the SOS – Save Our Species Rapid Action Grants that support projects aimed at addressing immediate threats that require targeted specific action. No deadline is...
Grant Harper (Biodiversity Restoration Specialists, St Arnaud, New Zealand) and Nancy Bunbury have published a review paper in the open-access journal Global Ecology and Conservation on the biology and impacts of three species of introduced rats Rattus...
From time to time, ACAP has published on its roles and activities in scientific journals, scholarly books, in the popular literature and via presentations at scientific conferences (see the list of selected literature below). Most recently the...
Society The White-chinned Petrel survey undertaken on Disappointment Island was supported by an award to NIWA from the ACAP Grants Programme in its 2014 round (click here). With thanks to Graham Parker and Kalinka Rexer-Huber for information and...
Mollymawk albatrosses Thalassarche spp. occasionally turn up as vagrants on islands in the Southern Ocean, usually in breeding colonies of congeners, as reported from time to time in ACAP Latest News (click here). Some of the birds occupy nests and...
Last month a helicopter from a visiting ship was used to survey the Barff Peninsula on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* for any remaining alien Reindeer Rangifer tarandus after two seasons of hunting during which over 6600 animals were removed...
For the ninth time North Star Science and Technology will award a total of eight battery- or solar-powered Argos Platform Transmitter Terminals (PTTs) to one to three recipients (eight PTTs to one project or four PTTs to each of two projects, or four...
an earlier ACAP news item on the Smart Tuna Hook. Development of the smart hook has been funded previouslyby the ACAP Small Grants Programme under project ACAP 12-03 "Seabird mitigation effectiveness of the Smart Tuna Hook in Tuna longline fishing"....
from the Advisory Committee (AC) Work Programme budget in 2014-15. Applications must be submitted on an ACAP Small Grants Application Form, available from the home page on the ACAP website. When assessing project applications, preference will be given...