Five of the thirteen 2019/20 albatross counters on Eastern Island next to a WWI gun; from left: Breck Tyler, Martha Brown, Craig Marsh, Susan Scott and Caren Loebel-Fried Photograph by Martha Brown Totals of 446 791 occupied nests of Laysan Albatrosses...
By now regular readers of ACAP Latest News must know who Wisdom is, the famous 69-year old Laysan Albatross of Midway Atoll (see her ALN string). The last post had the pair returning to their usual nest site on Midway’s Sand Island in November, but no...
for her 2017 children’s book A Perfect Day for an Albatross, which is illustrated with her own artwork. Caren has been volunteering on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific recently, helping with the annual count of incubating Black-footed and Laysan...
Albatross Task Force - Chile makes a dual-language WAD2020 banner to take to sea, photograph by Diego Segovia In response to the global conservation crisis being faced by albatrosses, countries across the globe need to step up to the challenge of...
Eight years ago I posted an article to ACAP Latest News that commenced: “In 2000 I visited Midway Atoll in the North Pacific on an excursion after the Second International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses and other Petrels that...
The USFWS Pacific Region is seeking volunteers for six months at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge from April to November 2020. Volunteer work includes invasive plant and rodent removal using manual and chemical applications of pesticides, native...
LPO (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux) is France’s BirdLife partner. With a century of commitment with more than 55 000 members, 5000 active volunteers, 400 employees nationwide and a network of local associations active in more than 80...
The Australasian Seabird Group (ASG) is a special-interest group of Birds Australia, the country partner of BirdLife International. It was formed in 1971 and is managed in collaboration with the Ornithological Society of New Zealand (Birds New...
In 2006/07 and 2007/08 I spent two summers on Gough, a UK island in the South Atlantic, working on alien plant eradications with small teams of volunteers. As well as this necessary work towards the island’s conservation management, we climbed into...
This year a long-awaited attempt to eradicate Black Rats Rattus rattus and House Mice Mus musculus on Australia’s Lord Howe Island took place, as reported in ACAP Latest News (click here) Following an aerial bait drop coupled with ground baiting...