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title: "No uplisting:  ACAP-listed White-chinned Petrel recommended to remain with a threatened status of Vulnerable"
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# No uplisting:  ACAP-listed White-chinned Petrel recommended to remain with a threatened status of Vulnerable

Following a review in 2013 by [BirdLife International](http://www.birdlife.org)’s [Globally Threatened Seabird Forum](http://www.birdlife.org/globally-threatened-bird-forums/category/species-group/threatened-seabirds/) it was considered that “despite considerable uncertainty over the trend data, an uplisting from [Vulnerable](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3922) to Endangered [of the ACAP-listed White-chinned Petrel *Procellaria aequinoctialis*] may be warranted”.  However, no conclusion was then reached and the review was kept open until this year ([click here](http://www.birdlife.org/globally-threatened-bird-forums/2014/08/white-chinned-petrel-procellaria-aequinoctialis-uplist-to-endangered/)).

 Following further comments by interested individuals and organizations, including by the ACAP Secretariat, BirdLife has now recommended that the White-chinned Petrel - at risk to longline fisheries in the Southern Ocean and in waters off southern Africa and South America - retain its Vulnerable status and not be uplisted to Endangered.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/W/White_chinned/White-chinned Petrels Antipodes Dave Boyle.jpg)

 White-chinned Petrel on the Antipodes, photograph by David Boyle

 “The final categorisation will be published on the BirdLife website in late October and on the [IUCN website](http://www.iucn.org) in November, following further checking of information relevant to the assessment by BirdLife and IUCN.”

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 08 October 2015*