Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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Third Island Invasives Conference, Scotland, July 2017: abstract deadline approaches 08-02-1717 2942
Pollution in Antarctica: high mercury levels found in Southern Giant Petrels sampled on King George Island 07-02-1717 2811
Too much litter: Brazilian beach-washed White-chinned Petrels show an increasing ingestion of “user plastic” fragments over three decades 06-02-1717 2823
It’s in the blood: albatrosses and petrels get checked for parasites at a rehabilitation centre in South Africa 03-02-1717 2703
Plasma chemistry of the Black-browed Albatross 02-02-1717 2953
Employment opportunities: help conserve Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses on World Heritage Gough Island for a year 01-02-1717 4577
Saving Tristan Albatrosses from mice in 2019: the UK Government has committed £1.75 million to support the Gough Island Restoration Programme 31-01-1717 4783
Climate can effect recruitment age of Wandering Albatrosses 30-01-1717 2800
Breeding site of the Critically Endangered Mascarene Petrel found on the island of Reunion 27-01-1717 3137
Macquarie’s Black-browed Albatrosses get tracked at sea 26-01-1717 3246
ACAP and the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles sign a Memorandum of Understanding 25-01-1717 3068
UPDATED: Third year of translocating Laysan Albatrosses to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge gets underway 24-01-1717 6561
Mice attacks on Midway albatrosses are spreading but plans are afoot to eradicate them 23-01-1717 5605
A South African Wandering Albatross gets a second chance after a deck landing in New Zealand 20-01-1717 3528
Crossing the Tasman Sea: the Fluttering Shearwater gets studied at the nest and tracked from New Zealand to Australia 19-01-1717 4171
Most Sooty Shearwaters and Arctic Fulmars in the North Pacific contain plastic 18-01-1717 3091
Cahowcam! The Endangered Bermuda Petrel gets a live-streaming burrow camera 17-01-1717 3670
South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur) gets Conservation Action Plans for its decreasing albatross populations 16-01-1717 2702
Tenth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee to be held in Wellington, New Zealand in September 13-01-1717 3666
Young Explorers paint albatrosses at sea and raise 860 Euro to help ACAP’s flyback trials 12-01-1717 2784
Decreasing numbers of albatrosses on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur) considered due to fisheries bycatch 11-01-1717 3107
A movement ecology framework for albatrosses 10-01-1717 3055
Rats preying upon seabird eggs: an experimental test 09-01-1717 3363
Enriching the forest floor: Westland Petrels boost levels of Selenium at breeding sites 06-01-1717 2750
Doyen island eradication helicopter pilot Peter Garden becomes an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit 05-01-1717 5592
Near Threatened shearwaters found dumped with their throats slit and skulls smashed in New Zealand 04-01-1717 2698
Annual census shows Laysan Albatross numbers are up on Kure Atoll 03-01-1717 2937
Hoping for an egg: Short-tailed Albatrosses are back on Midway 02-01-1717 4069
Procellariiform seabird recovery on islands after removal of invasive predators 30-12-1616 3811
A 19-year old man is arrested in the case of killing Laysan Albatrosses at Kaena Point last year, and pleads "not guilty" 29-12-1616 3640
South Africa’s seabird bycatch mitigation measures get reviewed for the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission 28-12-1616 3320
Seabird mortality 101: “simple fixes” could save thousands of birds a year killed in fisheries 27-12-1616 3575
Canada re-assesses the national status of the Pink-footed Shearwater, a non-breeding visitor from Chile 26-12-1616 3285
Full score for a Hawaiian translocation exercise as 36 petrels and shearwaters fly free in the first two years 23-12-1616 4736
A translocated and hand-fed Chatham Albatross gets photographed in South American waters 22-12-1616 5513
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s Scientific Committee endorses ACAP’s advice for reducing seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries 21-12-1616 2441
Wisdom, the 66-year Laysan Albatross, returns yet again to Midway and lays her latest egg 20-12-1616 4651
Breeding phenology of Wandering Albatrosses at Marion Island remarkably constant over three years 19-12-1616 2669
UPDATED: Fluent in Mandarin? Employment opportunity in Cape Town to help save seabirds in tuna longline fisheries 16-12-1616 4199
Effects of cattle exclusion on the vegetation of a Pink-footed Shearwater colony 16-12-1616 4545
Sex- and age-specific variation in seabird bycatch gets studied 15-12-1616 2942
The Flesh-footed Shearwater is now regarded as globally Near Threatened 14-12-1616 4257
Planning commences to eradicate Midway’s albatross-killing House Mice 13-12-1616 5451
From Midway to Oahu by jet: 15 Black-footed Albatross chicks to be translocated in 2017 12-12-1616 6755
Latest news on Hutton's Shearwaters after the Kaikoura earthquake 09-12-1616 4434
Proposal to down-list the Critically Endangered Amsterdam Albatross gets postponed 08-12-1616 2950
A cleaned-up Macquarie Island leads to BirdLife Australia down-listing three of its four albatrosses 07-12-1616 3428
Recovering Grey Petrel population at Macca gets tracked at sea 06-12-1616 4439
Costs of reproduction in annually-breeding Black-browed and biennially-breeding Grey-headed Albatrosses 05-12-1616 3019
Should Australia’s Shy Albatross be uplisted from Near Threatened to Vulnerable? 02-12-1616 3247
Reduce trawler discards, increase longline mortality: a study with Mediterranean shearwaters 01-12-1616 2750
Some go home, some stay: successes in establishing a new Short-tailed Albatross colony by translocating chicks 30-11-1616 3006
Studying foraging of non-breeding Balearic Shearwaters by geolocation and stable isotopes 29-11-1616 2967
The life and times of a 36-year old Northern Royal Albatross 28-11-1616 3683
Illegal longline fishing affects endangered albatrosses the most according to a desk study 25-11-1616 3302
The Northern Royal Albatrosses at Taiaroa Head start their latest breeding season with 37 eggs laid 24-11-1616 4389
Volunteer, this time with albatrosses, on Midway Atoll in the North-western Hawaiian Islands 23-11-1616 3160
Volunteer with Manx Shearwaters (and other seabirds) on the United Kingdom’s Skomer Island 22-11-1616 3552
A large Marine Protected Area for Gough and Tristan da Cunha? 21-11-1616 3622
Hutton’s Shearwater takes a hard hit from the Kaikoura earthquake 18-11-1616 4853
An eight-kilometre fence protects threatened Hawaiian Petrels on Mauna Loa 17-11-1616 2887
Dogs to search for rodents on South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur) after five years of eradication effort 16-11-1616 4230
Another opportunity to volunteer on a shearwater island, this time in the Seychelles 15-11-1616 3279
Job opportunity in the Med: a project warden is required to monitor Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwaters in Malta 14-11-1616 3065
Creating an olfactory trap: do procellariiform seabirds sniff out plastics at sea? 11-11-1616 3443
Volunteer with threatened shearwaters in the Med: BirdLife Malta is looking for help 10-11-1616 3003
Moult patterns and carryover effects in albatrosses and petrels: an MSc opportunity in South Africa 09-11-1616 3183
Were albatrosses smaller in the past? A new ancestral form from Antarctica 08-11-1616 2933
A new breeding season commences with a webcam again for the Northern Royal Albatrosses at Taiaroa Head 07-11-1616 3929
Rats to be gone by next year? Progress with the Lord Howe Rodent Eradication Project as a Public Environment Report is released for comment 04-11-1616 3930
More female than male Southern and Northern Royal Albatrosses are caught on longlines off Uruguay 03-11-1616 2796
The population biology of 555 Laysan Albatrosses on Oahu gets studied by Pacific Rim Conservation 02-11-1616 2950
Third Island Invasives Conference (Dundee, Scotland, July 2017) opens for registration and abstracts 01-11-1616 5055
A high-seas Marine Protected Area in Antarctica’s Ross Sea is declared after five years of negotiation 31-10-1616 5265
Sexing Black-browed Albatrosses by measuring them 28-10-1616 3114
A rescue campaign keeps Tropical Shearwater numbers stable in the face of light pollution on Reunion 27-10-1616 3331
Lost colonies, lost birds: populations of Audubon's Shearwaters in the Caribbean 26-10-1616 3101
“Weighed in the balance”. Deducing meal sizes fed to Northern Royal Albatross chicks 25-10-1616 4220
Gough Island mouse-eradication inspection complete, now to raise the funds… 24-10-1616 5344
Stop droning on: a fly-free zone for Taiaroa Head’s Northern Royal Albatrosses 21-10-1616 3902
Poetry closes the Sixth Albatross and Petrel Conference in Barcelona 20-10-1616 2866
Quantifying ingested debris in seabirds: a review and recommendations for standardization 19-10-1616 3383
Annual census of Northern Giant Petrels on Macquarie Island shows continued recovery after MIPEP 18-10-1616 3478
An Antarctic biology symposium for New Zealand in 2021 17-10-1616 3659
The 44th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group is to be held in the USA’s Washington State in February next year 14-10-1616 3085
The Sixth Albatross and Petrel Conference went off well in Spain last month. Whither IAPC7? 13-10-1616 6168
Island and seabird conservation pioneer Brian Bell passes away at his home in New Zealand 12-10-1616 4293
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission considers ACAP’s advice for reducing seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries 11-10-1616 3660
Endemic Henderson Petrels continue to survive in the face of rats 07-10-1616 3176
Captain of a tuna long-liner pleads guilty to killing 39 threatened albatrosses 06-10-1616 3054
Making a comeback: Chile’s Black-browed and Grey-headed Albatrosses doing well as bycatch rates drop 05-10-1616 3700
The border effect: fishing closures for albatross conservation in Argentine waters 04-10-1616 3051
Albatrosses and petrels caught by Spanish longliners in the Indian Ocean identified 03-10-1616 2842
Mitigating bycatch: the distribution of at-risk New Zealand albatrosses and petrels in the Pacific Ocean 30-09-1616 2898
Factors affecting seabird bycatch occurrence in southern Japanese longline fisheries 29-09-1616 3049
Joining up reserves on the Kerguelen/Heard Plateau? Using Black-browed and Wandering Albatross tracking to define a new Marine Protected Area 28-09-1616 2825
Feasibility study for the eradication of albatross-attacking House Mice on Marion Island published 27-09-1616 4945
Creating a colony: eight Newell’s Shearwater chicks translocated to within a predator-proof fence 26-09-1616 4083
Commission meeting hears Amsterdam and Tristan Albatrosses are at risk in the Indian Ocean from tuna longlining 23-09-1616 2730
Newell’s and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters are eating more plastic in Hawaii 22-09-1616 3505