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title: "BirdLife\'s Global Seabird Programme publishes the eighth issue of its newsletter SeaChange"
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# BirdLife's Global Seabird Programme publishes the eighth issue of its newsletter SeaChange

The [Global Seabird Programme](http://www.birdlife.org/seabirds/index.html) of [BirdLife International](http://www.birdlife.org/) publishes an annual newsletter entitled *[SeaChange](http://www.birdlife.org/seabirds/seabird-contacts.html)* that includes short articles on its activities in helping save seabirds around the World.

 The latest 12-page issue of *SeaChange* ([Number 8](http://www.birdlife.org/seabirds/downloads/Seachange_Issue8_Aug12.pdf), for August 2012) has been published to coincide with the Fifth International and Albatross Conference ([IAPC5](http://www.cvent.com/events/the-fifth-international-albatross-and-petrel-conference/event-summary-7f2350508d8e48278a360a387b75af71.aspx)) to be held in a little over a week's time in Wellington, New Zealand.  Articles cover activities of BirdLife's [Albatross Task Force](http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/albatross/problem/atf.aspx): expanding into Peru, testing novel mitigation measures to reduce longline hooking rates, and considering the effects of gill nets on diving seabirds.

 Other news reports on a collaborative effort between Japan, New Zealand and South Africa to produce a photographic identification guide for seabird corpses to be used by on-board observers.  Species highlighted in the newsletter include the ACAP-listed Black Petrel *Procellaria westlandica*and Cory's Shearwater *Calonectris diomedea*, a potential candidate for listing within the Agreement.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/W/white_chinned_petrel_hooked_by nicolas_gasco.jpg)  
Identifying drowned seabirds: this is a Whie-chinned Petrel  
Photograph by Nicolas Gasco

 An update on plans to eradicate the "killer mice" of Gough Island and save the [Critically Endangered](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=30013) Tristan Albatrosses *Diomedea dabbenena* is given by Richard Cuthbert, [RSPB](http://www.rspb.org.uk/) Conservation Scientist, who co-manages seabird research on the island with Peter Ryan of the [FitzPatrick Institute](http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/), University of Cape Town.

 All the earlier issues of *SeaChange* are also available [on-line](http://www.birdlife.org/seabirds/seabird-contacts.html).

 With thanks to Orea Anderson, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for information.

 John Cooper, ACP Information Officer, 5 August 2012