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title: "Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel"
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# Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel

Kate Waterhouse has provided an update on the conservation status of the ACAP-listed and [Vulnerable](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3923) Black Petrel *Procellaria parkinsoni* in the latest newsletter of the [Great Barrier Environmental Trust](http://www.gbict.co.nz/index.html).  The species breeds only on [Great and Little Barrier Islands](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1361-acap-breeding-sites-no-24-great-barrier-aotea-and-little-barrier-hauturu-islands-new-zealand-only-breeding-sites-of-the-black-petrel) in New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf off North Island.  Both island populations are at risk to interactions with fisheries and only Little Barrier is free of introduced predators.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/B/Black/black_petrel_dave_boyle.jpg)

 Black Petrel, photograph by David Boyle

 A storm on Great Barrier earlier this year caused damage to the Black Petrel’s breeding sites on the island ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1855-new-zealand-s-glenfern-sanctuary-protects-acap-listed-black-petrels-in-the-face-of-winter-storms)).

 [Click here](http://www.gbict.co.nz/Newsletters/Issue32/BlackPetrel.htm) for an earlier article on the Black Petrel by Kate Waterhouse in *Great Barrier Environmental Trust Environmental News*.

 **Reference:**

 Waterhouse, K. 2014.  Dive, dig, fly thousands of miles.  An update on our endangered Black Petrel.  [*Great Barrier Environmental Trust Environmental News*33: 14-17](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5339e6f9e4b061857996f939/t/54361169e4b01df32ac6458d/1412829545708/Environmental%20News%20%2333_Winter%202014.pdf).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 22 October 2014*