{mosimage} The Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was recently upgraded to Critically Endangered, due to the double blow of fishing mortality to birds at sea (mainly on long-lines) and House Mouse predation on chicks at its sole significant breeding...
It is now well known that the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic's Tristan da Cunha Group, is driving the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena towards extinction - by active...
Albatrosses and petrels are perhaps the most threatened group of birds in the world. Of the world's 22 species of albatrosses, 15 are considered Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable according to the 'Red-List' criteria of the World...
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement aims to improve the protection of listed species both on land and at sea. The development and proclamation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) or their equivalents surrounding localities where ACAP-listed species breed...
An alphabetical listing of current, formally adopted management plans for breeding sites of ACAP-listed species is given. For several sites earlier management plans have been published, which are now superseded and so are not listed below. Existing...
The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. There are...
"Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East...
Attaining an improved conservation status for those species of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters listed within the Agreement is its main aim and its reason for existence. A common way that such efforts are directed is by way of the production of a...
The sub-Antarctic and cool temperate islands of the Southern Ocean all support populations of ACAP-listed species of albatrosses and petrels. A large number of books and booklets has been published since the year 2000 dealing with various aspects of...
The 5th issue, dated August 2009, of Sea Change , Newsletter of the BirdLife Global Seabird Programme, has been published The newsletter reports on the Albatross Task Force, now active in seven southern hemisphere countries, the Critically Endangered...
A multi-national expedition departs today on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , from Cape Town to continue conservation research on ACAP-listed species in the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group. Nearly three weeks will...
In March 2008 the United Kingdom appointed Dr Anton Wolfaardt as its first ACAP Officer, to address issues relating to the conservation of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels in the South Atlantic. Anton is based within the UK's Joint Nature...
Gough and Inaccessible are two island nature reserves in the mid South Atlantic that are part of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Together they form a single World Heritage Site. Most recently they...
It is now well-known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are facing a double onslaught from longline mortality at sea and from chick predation by introduced House Mice on land. A measure of breeding production for the whole...
At any time, a number of procellariiform seabirds (albatrosses and petrels) are flying the World's oceans carrying tracking devices, either satellite transmitters or loggers. Some of these birds are of ACAP-listed species. At www.wildlifetracking.org...
In 1982 on my first visit to Gough Island, part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, I marked a number of nests of the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos and banded...
With support from Ovenstone's fishing vessel, Edinburgh , Dr Anton Wolfaardt, United Kingdom's ACAP Officer, took the opportunity at the end of his September liaison visit to Tristan da Cunha and its Conservation and Fisheries Departments to visit...
With attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus killing a large proportion of Tristan Albatross chicks Diomedea dabbenena (and Atlantic Petrel chicks Pterodroma incerta ), it is pleasing to report that the population of at least one ACAP-listed...
Peter Ryan (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Rob Ronconi (Dalhousie University, Canada) were successfully landed on uninhabited Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic from South Africa's Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas during the...
Gough and Inaccessible Islands in the South Atlantic form part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Together the two island nature reserves (including their 12-nautical mile territorial...
