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title: "The Oceania Seabird Symposium will now be held in Auckland, New Zealand in April 2025"
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# The Oceania Seabird Symposium will now be held in Auckland, New Zealand in April 2025

*![Oceania seabirds conference 2025](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/Oceania_seabirds_conference_2025.jpg) *

 The [University of Auckland](https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en.html), Aotearoa New Zealand is now the venue for the [Oceania Seabird Symposium](https://oceaniaseabirds2025.com/) in 2025.  *Oceania Seabirds* will bring the attention of the international and Oceania community to the importance of seabirds within the world’s largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean

 The symposium  mission is to:

 
- Connect government policy makers, seabird conservation practitioners and scientists, land managers and communities from all Pacific Island countries and territories working with seabirds.
- To increase our collective understanding of the value of seabirds to Pacific economies and communities including cultural values.
- Highlight conservation and scientific initiatives currently underway or planned, to the benefit of region’s seabirds, their islands, and the seas where they occur and to the people of Oceania.
- Provide hands-on training and networking for increasing capacity for monitoring and managing Pacific seabird populations at community and national levels.

 **![Bullers Shearwater off North Cape NZ Kirk Zufelt](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Shearwaters/Bullers-Shearwater-off-North-Cape-NZ-Kirk-Zufelt.jpg)*  
A [Vulnerable](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/bullers-shearwater-ardenna-bulleri/refs) Buller's Shearwater*Ardenna bulleri*off Mercury Islands, New Zealand, a target for a symposium field trip, photograph by Kirk Zufelt*

 Six [workshops](https://oceaniaseabirds2025.com/workshops/) are planned, to be led by international experts. Two [f](https://oceaniaseabirds2025.com/workshops/)[ield trips](https://oceaniaseabirds2025.com/108-2/)  are to be held on 17 April.  The call for abstracts is now open with a deadline of 28 February 2025.  Most unusually, there is no registration fee!

 The symposium was originally planned to be held in New Caledonia in September this year (click here).

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 30 December 2024*