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title: "Conserving the Black-capped Petrel of Hispaniola: the Diablotin gets an action plan"
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# Conserving the Black-capped Petrel of Hispaniola: the Diablotin gets an action plan

*![Black capped Petrel with transmitter Tazio Taveres s](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/Petrels/Black-capped-Petrel-with-transmitter_Tazio-Taveres_s.jpg)   
A Black-capped Petrel carries a transmitter; photograph by Tazio Taveres*

 In 2017 ACAP hosted a [workshop](https://www.acap.aq/documents/advisory-committee/ac10/ac10-meeting-documents/2882-ac10-doc-14-workshop-on-pterodroma-and-other-small-burrowing-petrels/file) in Wellington, New Zealand at the time of the Tenth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee ([AC10](https://www.acap.aq/documents/advisory-committee/ac10)) that discussed threats facing gadfly petrels in the genera *Pterodroma* and *Pseudobulweria*.  Although no gadfly petrels are currently listed by the Agreement, *ACAP Latest News* occasionally features important developments relating to their conservation.

 Here*ALN* reports the recent publication by the [International Black-capped Petrel Conservation Group](https://www.birdscaribbean.org/our-work/working-groups/black-capped-petrel-wg/) of an Action Plan for the [Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-capped-petrel-pterodroma-hasitata) Black-capped Petrel or Diablotin *Pterodroma hasitata*, a species endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (made up of Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

 Read a popular account of the action plan [here](https://www.birdscaribbean.org/2022/01/conservationists-pen-action-plan-to-protect-extremely-elusive-and-endangered-seabird/?fbclid=IwAR0atJuftNeXcVzT2iR1WUdydq__uwqswEdJP36vqbDV8y5l94pipec_2Sw).

 **Reference:**

 Wheeler, J., Satgé, Y., Brown, A., Goetz, J., Keitt, B., Nevins, H. & Rupp, E. 2021.  [*Black-capped Petrel Conservation Update and Action Plan.  Conserving the Diablotin*](https://www.birdscaribbean.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-Black-capped-Petrel-Conservation-Update-and-Plan.pdf).  International Black-capped Petrel Conservation Group.  156 pp.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 11 February 2022*