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title: "Who will be attending ACAP’s Ninth Advisory Committee meeting in Chile next month?"
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# Who will be attending ACAP’s Ninth Advisory Committee meeting in Chile next month?

The [Ninth Meeting](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2448-documents-posted-for-the-ninth-meeting-of-acap-s-advisory-committee-la-serena-chile-may-2016) of ACAP’s Advisory Committee (AC9) will be held in La Serena, Chile next month from the 9th to the 13th.  It will be preceded by the [Seventh Meeting](http://www.acap.aq/en/working-groups/seabird-bycatch-working-group/seabird-bycatch-wg-meeting-7) of the AC’s Seabird Bycatch Working Group from 2 to 4 May and the [Third Meeting](http://www.acap.aq/en/working-groups/population-and-conservation-status-working-group/population-and-conservation-status-wg-meeting-3) of the AC’s Population and Conservation Status Working Group on 5 and 6 May.  The three meetings will be held at the beach-side [Hotel Club La Serena](http://www.clublaserena.com/).  [La Serena](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Serena,_Chile) is a coastal town 470 km north of Santiago, the capital of Chile.

 Ten of the Agreement’s 13 Parties are expected to be present.  In addition, three non-Party Range States (Canada, Namibia and the USA) will be attending as observers.  Three international non-governmental organizations will also attend the meetings as observers.  They are:

 [BirdLife International](http://www.birdlife.org)  
[Humane Society International](http://www.hsi.org.au)  
[Oikonos](http://www.oikonos.org)[http://www.oikonos.org/](http://www.oikonos.org/)

 NGOs and other organizations from five countries are also listed to attend:

 [American Bird Conservancy](http://www.abcbirds.org), USA  
[Colorado State University](http://www.colostate.edu), USA[Department of Zoology](http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk), University of Oxford, UK  
[Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas](http://www.islas.org.mx), Mexico  
[One Health Institute](http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu), University of California, Davis, USA  
[Instituto de Fomento Pesquero](http://www.ifop.cl/), Chile  
[Island Conservation](http://www.islandconservation.org), Chile  
[Projeto Albatroz](http://www.projetoalbatroz.com.br), Brazil

 [Click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac9/ac9-meeting-documents/2679-ac9-doc-04-participant-list/file) for a list of expected meeting participants to AC9 by name and affiliation.

 ![Sooty near Amsterdam Kirk Zufelt s](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Sooty/Sooty%20near%20Amsterdam%20Kirk%20Zufelt%20s.jpg) 

 Sooty Albatross near Amsterdam Island, photograph by Kirk Zufelt

 AC9 will be chaired by Mark Tasker, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, United Kingdom.  The ACAP Secretariat will be represented by Marco Favero, Executive Secretary, Wiesława Misiak, Science Officer and John Cooper, Information Officer, along with Juan Pablo Seco Pon of Argentina and an interpretation team.

 Documents and Information Papers for the three meetings are now available on this website.  Note that some are password protected, with only summaries publically available.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 April 2016*