Professor Peter Ryan has been appointed Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at South Africa’s University of Cape Town with effect from the beginning of the month. Peter has been Acting Director of the “Fiztitute” since...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has recently been awarded two separate grants, one from the Albatross and Petrel Agreement’s Advisory Committee ( click here ), the other from “Darwin Plus” , the UK’s Overseas...
Sebastián Jiménez ( Laboratorio de Recursos Pelágicos, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos , Montevideo, Uruguay ) and colleagues have published in the journal Biological Conservation on four species of great albatrosses Diomedea spp. killed by...
Dena Spatz ( Coastal Conservation Action Lab , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) and colleagues, writing “early view” in the journal Conservation Biology , have identified islands supporting...
The Gough and Inaccessible Islands World Heritage Site is made up of two of the four Tristan islands in the South Atlantic, themselves part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha . Both Gough and...
Books on albatrosses come out regularly nowadays, with at least one title a year it seems. How does this latest offering - “Albatross” by Graham Barwell in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series stack up, say in comparison to “Albatrosses” (2008) by Terence...
Following the success of the Million Dollar Mouse Campaign in raising funds to support the costs of ridding New Zealand’s Antipodes Island of its introduced House Mice Mus musculus ( click here ) a Department of Conservation ( DOC ) expedition is...
A number of ACAP-listed albatross a nd petrel species visits Namibian waters in the south-east Atlantic, including the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena from Gough Island ( click here ). Tristan Albatross, photograph by Katrine...
Over the last decade every September marine ornithologists have travelled to Gough Island , part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, to conduct research on its threatened...
ACAP’s Population and Conservation Status Working Group (PaCSWG) started its second meeting yesterday at the Barradas Hotel in the resort town of Punta del Este, Uruguay. The meeting was chaired by Richard Phillips (Convenor, United Kingdom) aided by...
Jeffrey Dawson ( RSPB Centre for Conservation Science , Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, United Kingdom ) and colleagues have published in the journal Conservation Biology on prioritizing islands in the United Kingdom Overseas...
The Tristan group of islands forms part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The four islands of Tristan , Gough, Inaccessible and Nightingale support three endemic ACAP-listed species: Critically...
As reported from time to time in ACAP Latest News sick and injured albatrosses and petrels taken under care to wildlife rehabilitation centres are released at sea or from the shore if they are deemed to have recovered sufficiently. ACAP-listed species...
Dr. Johannes Holtzhausen of the Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources , Namibia gave a presentation on to the conservation of seabirds, including albatrosses and petrels, in his country at the last day of the Eighth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory...
On islands all around the Southern Ocean ornithological field researchers are starting the busy season as most of the seabird species return to breed. Australia’s latest This week at Macquarie Island on-line newsletter reports from the southern...
A total of 251 incubating pairs of ACAP-listed Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus was counted at four different localities on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic last month by Peter Ryan and colleagues of the University of...
It is now well known that the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is under serious threat from attacks on its chicks by “killer” House Mice Mus musculus on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island , its major breeding site (at most one...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena breeds only on Gough and Inaccessible islands in the United Kingdom’s Tristan da Cunha group, with the population on the main island of Tristan long extinct. The bulk of the species’...
James Glass ( Tristan Fisheries Department , Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean) and Peter Ryan ( FitzPatrick Institute , University of Cape Town, South Africa) published last year in the African Journal of Marine Science on seabirds coming aboard...
The first aerial photographic survey of Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche chlororhynchos on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic was undertaken on 27 September this year during incubation time as part of South...
