Geoff Tuck ( CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research , Hobart, Australia) and colleagues have analysed the deleterious effects of tuna fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean on the populations of four albatross species, publishing their findings in open access...
Eric Vanderwerf and Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation have analysed eight years of demographic data collected from Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis breeding at Kaena Point (site of a new predator-proof fence ) on Oahu, Hawaii. The...
The 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ( ICCAT ) concluded on 19 November in Istanbul, Turkey ( click here for the press release). A key outcome from the meeting towards the improved conservation...
Barbara Block (Biology Department, Hopkins Marine Station , Stanford University, California, USA) and colleagues writing in the journal Nature , have analysed results from the TOPP ( Tagging of Pelagic Predators ) programme, including the at-sea...
The Pacific Seabird Group will hold its 38th Annual Meeting with the general theme of tropical seabirds on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA from 7-10 February 2012. The venue will be the Turtle Bay Resort and Golf Club , situated in a protected bay...
Thirty-hectare Grass Island lies within Stromness Bay, approximately 350 m from the nearest rat-infested mainland area at Tonsberg Point, South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* in the South Atlantic. The island is ice-free and entirely vegetated. The...
The papers and abstracts published in this proceedings volume are the outcome of an international conference on Island Invasives: Eradication and Management held at Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland , New Zealand from 8 to 12 February 2010. The...
In the past, from their first discovery, albatrosses have fallen victim to the stew pot or roasting fire, being generally considered good eating. Nowadays, however, it seems that the human consumption of albatrosses has died out as a habit - and no bad...
Philippe Cury ( Institut de Recherche pour le Développement , Sète, France) and colleagues writing in the journal Science have looked at the effect of fluctuations in food abundance on seabird breeding success for 14 species in several different...
The Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia is endemic to New Zealand and has recently been in the news because an unknown number were oiled by the Rena disaster, although at least 198 oiled corpses were found ( click here ). Helen Gummer and Lynn Adams...
It is hoped to carry a review of New Zealander Lance Richdale's biography by Neville Peat in ACAP Latest News in due course. Meanwhile, here is the publisher's "blurb" to whet your appetite. "The first biography of Lance Richdale, who achieved...
Nestor Coria ( Instituto Antártico Argentino , Buenos Aires, Argentina) and colleagues have published on the numbers of ACAP-listed Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus (and other birds) breeding on Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands in the...
According to information received recently from colleagues in France efforts are continuing to be made to rid the French sub-Antarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean of some of their introduced mammalian species. The feral cattle Bos taurus of...
Holly Jones (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Stephen Kress (National Audubon Society Seabird Restoration Program) have together reviewed active seabird restoration projects in the Journal of Wildlife Management . The paper's abstract follows:...
José Manuel Arcos ( SEO/BirdLife , Spain ) and colleagues, publishing on-line in the journal Biological Conservation have looked at how at-sea surveys of Cory's Calonectris diomedea and Balearic Puffinus mauretanicus Shearwaters and European Storm...
Alexander Bond ( Department of Biology , Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Jennifer Lavers , writing in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology , have looked at trace metal levels in the feathers of Flesh-footed...
For hundreds of years seabirds have dominated the ocean environment, soaring over pristine waters in search of productive upwelling areas where fish congregate. However, over the last few decades, these same foraging "hot spots" have contained not only...
A report published last year by the USA's National Marine Fisheries Service aims to help monitor progress in reducing bycatch of non-target fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds caught incidentally in fishing. The National Bycatch Report...
When Cole Porter wrote the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for the movies way back in 1934 he pretty certainly did not have albatrosses in mind. However, Lindsay Young and Eric Vanderwerf of Pacific Rim Conservation certainly did when they set up the...
An old record has come to light recently of a banded Southern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi killed by a 70-m bottom trawler fishing for finfish in the South Atlantic. The bird died after colliding with the warp cable and was hauled on board on a...
