Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will know of the plans to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus next year on New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Antipodes Island, home of seven species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Antipodes Island, with...
The US Fish and Wildlife Service seeks volunteers for a six-month tour of duty starting in late March 2016 at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Volunteer work will include habitat restoration, native plant propagation and out-planting, removal of...
The Portuguese Macaronesian Islands (Azores and Madeira) are vital breeding areas for several species of seabirds, including 85% of the world population of Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris borealis. Cory's Shearwater ashore, photograph by Paulo Catry On...
The NGO BirdLife Malta plans to hire four staffers for its new seabird conservation project “LIFE Arcipelagu Garnija - Securing the Maltese islands for the Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwater” which is about to start soon. Four full-time posts to work with...
ACAP-listed and Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters Puffinus mauretanicus, along with other seabirds, are set to be counted from today by the Peniche Seabird Project as they fly past Cabo Carvoeiro on the tip of the peninsula at the Portuguese...
The following news release from the Facebook Page of the Friends of Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge reports on record numbers of Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses breeding on the USA’s Midway Atoll in the...
A single pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has bred successfully in three of the four seasons since 2010/11 on the USA’s Midway Atoll, one of the North-Western Hawaiian Islands, as regularly reported in ACAP Latest News...
Kauai, one of the USA’s inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific, supports several populations of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis. Although small, these populations are considered significant because their height puts them above...
Following the successful eradication of Norway or Brown Rats Rattus norvegicus from the inhabited islands of St. Agnes and Gugh in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly (click here) the news is in that Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus are about to...
Seabirds in Chile are linked to extensive coastal and oceanic areas and are represented in different areas of endemism. Their presence in marine systems include the Humboldt Current, oceanic islands and the fjords and sub-Antarctic islands, where key...