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title: "Chile’s Pink-footed Shearwater gets discussed in Hawaii at the Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting"
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# Chile’s Pink-footed Shearwater gets discussed in Hawaii at the Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting

Verónica López of [Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge](http://oikonos.org/) has written to *ACAP Latest News* about aninformal meeting to discuss aspects of the conservation of the [globally Vulnerable](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/pink-footed-shearwater-ardenna-creatopus) and ACAP-listed Pink-footed Shearwater *Ardenna creatopus* (PFSH) at the recent [Pacific Seabird Group 46th Annual Meeting](https://pacificseabirdgroup.org/annual-meeting/annual-meetings-archive/), held on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Pink_footed/Pink-footed Shearwater Peter Hodum s.jpg)

 Pink-footed Shearwater, photograph by Peter Hodum

 An edited summary received from Verónica of the topics discussed at the Kauai get-together follows:

 The Recovery, Conservation and Management Plan (RECOGE) that the Government of Chile has approved for the PFSH. The Spanish version of the document is available [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzurpPlWvFG_d6g2Rgw8H8NdtAeVA4sn/view?usp=sharing).  See also *ALN*’s [posting](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/3241-chile-s-acap-listed-pink-footed-shearwater-gets-a-management-plan) on the plan.

 Colleagues from [Environment and Climate Change Canada](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html)introduced changes to the [status](http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/document/default_e.cfm?documentID=490) of the species in Canada, and shared their potential projects for migratory seabirds.

 Discussion was held on collaboration and sharing strategies as a group to help generate understanding and decision making in the conservation of the PFSH and other species

 It was noted that the PFSH is a good example of a species that unites us and can help us understand threats to other species across both hemispheres in the eastern Pacific, such as threats to the Sooty Shearwater *Ardenna grisea (*[globally Near Threatened](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/sooty-shearwater-ardenna-grisea)).

 “For [the] next steps, we hope to continue strengthening cooperation and incorporate people from other countries and institutions to build a bi-hemispheric working group for the species. We also want to explore the value of a technical working group within the Pacific Seabird Group”.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Pink_footed/PSG-PFSH-meetingVeronica-lopez.jpg)

 Attendees at the Pink-footed Shearwater get-together at the Pacific Seabird Group's 2019 Annual Meeting

 [Click here](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/3242-acap-listed-pink-footed-shearwaters-to-get-a-predator-proof-fence-on-chile-s-robinson-crusoe-island) for plans to protect a Pink-footed Shearwater breeding colony with a new fence.

 Recently a popular Chilean newspaper published a [two-page infographic](https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/fardela-blanca-la-increible-travesia-de-20-mil-km-de-un-ave-amenazada-que-solo-nidifica-en-chile/552784/)highlighting the Pink-footed Shearwater’s long migration and the efforts made for its conservation.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Pink_footed/PFSH-news_La-Tercera_Marzo2019.jpg)

 The [47th Annual Meeting](https://pacificseabirdgroup.org/annual-meeting/) of the Pacific Seabird Group will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA in February 2020.

 Wih thanks to Verónica López, Pink-footed Shearwater Team.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 02 April 2019*