Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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Going down in the south: Southern Giant Petrels decreasing on Antarctic Signy Island 22-12-1515 2865
Disco dancing! Light not sound affects breeding Scopoli’s Shearwaters 21-12-1515 4007
UPDATED: The Seabird Group to hold its 13th International Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in September next year 20-12-1515 3078
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission strengthens its Seabird Conservation Measure 19-12-1515 2786
Translocating Laysan Albatrosses and Hawaiian Petrels on Kauai 18-12-1515 4904
Historical records reflect recovery of the Short-tailed Albatross 17-12-1515 3299
Australia’s Shy Albatross gets a boost from an art exhibition 16-12-1515 3372
Counting Yelkouan Shearwaters in the Bosphorus: call for volunteers 15-12-1515 3078
A satellite-tagged Pink-footed Shearwater makes it home after 32 000 kilometres at sea 14-12-1515 3457
A third Island Invasives Conference is to be held in Scotland in 2017 13-12-1515 6166
ACAP Breeding Site No. 82. Auckland Island, where albatrosses are at risk to feral pigs 12-12-1515 12695
Over a hundred Chatham Albatrosses have fledged from their translocation colony 11-12-1515 5586
ACAP’s Advisory Committee to meet in La Serena, Chile next May: Circular No. 2 now available 10-12-1515 3142
A Northern Royal Albatross succumbs after swallowing a Seal Shark 09-12-1515 3424
Fledging Westland Petrels are at risk to power lines, night lights and vehicle traffic 08-12-1515 4037
New Zealand’s Leigh Fisheries wins a Seabird Smart award for helping ACAP-listed Black Petrels 07-12-1515 3024
Breeding female Wandering Albatrosses are at higher risk than are males from pelagic longliners in the south-west Atlantic 06-12-1515 2871
Does foraging in association with fishing vessels help Northern Royal Albatrosses feed their chicks? 05-12-1515 4621
Wisdom, the 64-year old Laysan Albatross lays an egg on Midway and goes back to sea 04-12-1515 4450
Oh for a male! Kure Atoll’s female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses is back incubating for another season 03-12-1515 2761
ACAP and CCAMLR sign a renewed Memorandum of Understanding in Hobart 02-12-1515 3159
Pet owners are asked to keep their dogs and cats away from breeding Laysan Albatrosses on the Hawaiian island of Kauai 01-12-1515 3673
Malta identifies new Marine Important Bird Areas for Scopoli’s and Yelkouan Shearwaters and Mediterranean Storm Petrels 30-11-1515 2987
“The albatross stands waiting upon bare cliff-top prow”. The scourge of longline mortality is reflected in a new poem 29-11-1515 2928
An injured Northern Royal Albatross gets a free ticket to Wellington Zoo’s animal hospital 28-11-1515 4230
Will you still love me when I'm 64? Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is back on Midway Atoll for another season 27-11-1515 4811
Translocated Hawaiian Petrel chicks start to fledge behind their predator-proof fence 26-11-1515 4446
Northern Royal Albatrosses return to breed at Taiaroa Head, New Zealand 25-11-1515 4371
The successful Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project wins two awards 24-11-1515 4115
House Mice were not a threat to burrowing seabirds on South Georgia/Islas Georgias del Sur 23-11-1515 2899
ACAP-listed Black Petrels get blessed as they return to Great Barrier Island 22-11-1515 2845
No new Marine Protected Areas again but CCAMLR and ACAP renew their Memorandum of Understanding 21-11-1515 3325
Guidelines for Cooperation agreed between ACAP and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Malta 20-11-1515 2625
Using a GigaPan Camera to monitor Shy Albatrosses remotely 19-11-1515 3183
Ridding New Zealand’s Antipodes Island of its introduced House Mice: operation to get going in February next year 18-11-1515 7080
Volunteer with albatrosses (and for other conservation work) on the USA’s Midway Atoll 17-11-1515 3163
Hawaiian Petrel chicks are successfully translocated to a fenced sanctuary within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge 16-11-1515 4678
Isotropic tracking Wandering Albatrosses in the South Atlantic reveals homogeneous conditions 15-11-1515 3201
Mouse attacks on albatrosses and petrels on Gough Island: view the videos! 14-11-1515 6288
Threatened albatrosses on Marion Island are being scalped by mice 13-11-1515 13972
How many? Surveying White-capped Albatrosses at the Auckland Islands from 2006 to 2014 by aerial photography 12-11-1515 3193
Constraint and compromise: the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in shaping the foraging patterns of albatrosses and petrels. A PhD opportunity with the British Antarctic Survey 11-11-1515 3245
Colour selection by Flesh-footed Shearwaters ingesting plastic 10-11-1515 3564
Grey-headed Albatrosses forage at frontal systems 09-11-1515 3327
A fourth breeding island for the Black-vented Shearwater 08-11-1515 2838
Christmas Shearwater numbers up on USA’s Kure Atoll after eradication of Polynesian Rats 07-11-1515 2780
Flesh-footed Shearwaters in the North Pacific - a decreasing population? 06-11-1515 2985
Tropical Shearwater found breeding for the first time on Desroches Atoll, Seychelles - in the presence of rats 05-11-1515 3379
ACAP attends a meeting of the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation for the first time 04-11-1515 3931
Creating a new colony of Hawaiian Petrels by translocation at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Kauai 02-11-1515 4856
An employment opportunity to work with BirdLife Marine Programme’s Seabird Tracking Database 01-11-1515 3596
Separating Atlantic and Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses at sea 31-10-1515 3856
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement contributes to the World Seabird Conference 30-10-1515 2828
South Africa shows the way at the Second World Seabird Conference in reducing seabird bycatch in longline and trawl fisheries 29-10-1515 3757
A juvenile Tristan Albatross averages 500 km a day for over a year at sea 28-10-1515 3187
The Second World Seabird Conference gets going today in Cape Town, South Africa 27-10-1515 3201
Dates and deadlines announced for the 6th International Albatross and Petrel Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 2016 26-10-1515 3867
Two new Marine Protected Areas declared by Portugal will help conserve ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwaters 25-10-1515 2806
Weeding out Golden Crownbeard on USA’s Midway Atoll for its Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses 24-10-1515 3104
Have your say: present on top predators in the Southern Ocean at SCAR’s Open Science Conference next year 23-10-1515 3211
Conservation of shearwaters and petrels in the Portuguese Macaronesian islands 22-10-1515 3085
ACAP and CCSBT Executive Secretaries sign a Memorandum of Understanding in South Korea 21-10-1515 3938
Little Shearwaters likely to be breeding on New Zealand’s Raoul Island after the eradication of introduced mammals 20-10-1515 2977
Fledgling Newell’s Shearwaters downed by light pollution get a ceremonial release in Hawaii 19-10-1515 3962
A feral cat is filmed removing a Streaked Shearwater chick from its burrow 18-10-1515 2875
Stomach contents of seven Short-tailed Albatrosses caught as by-catch identified as squid and fish 17-10-1515 3223
Cyclonic storm causes major landslip damage to breeding sites of ACAP-listed Westland Petrels 16-10-1515 2866
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters return to a Seychelles island 15-10-1515 3335
Foraging ecology of the Cape Verde Shearwater off West Africa 14-10-1515 3263
“Pacific Petrels in Peril”. BirdLife International announces a new initiative to save petrels, shearwaters and storm petrels in the Pacific Ocean 13-10-1515 3547
Relict populations of Hutton’s Shearwater show genetic similarity 12-10-1515 3856
Trophic structure of a procellariiform community in the Southern Ocean over a 13-year period 11-10-1515 3323
Heading south: tagged Pink-footed Shearwaters are on their way home to Chile 10-10-1515 3388
Chile announces new Marine Protected Areas at the second Our Ocean Conference in Valparaiso this week 09-10-1515 3892
No uplisting: ACAP-listed White-chinned Petrel recommended to remain with a threatened status of Vulnerable 08-10-1515 2618
Not just a southern problem: seabird mortality from longlining in the North Atlantic 07-10-1515 3054
Yelkouan Shearwater recommended to keep its threatened status of Vulnerable 06-10-1515 2701
The Life+ Malta Seabird Project studies Scopoli’s Shearwater movements with geolocator tags 05-10-1515 2978
Brazil becomes a Party to the Convention on Migratory Species 04-10-1515 3549
Newell’s Shearwaters are rescued from ship’s lights in Hawaiian waters 03-10-1515 3403
A chance to make a difference: BirdLife Malta is hiring seabird conservationists to help the Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwater 02-10-1515 2959
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary at 620 000 km² announced by New Zealand’s Prime Minister at the United Nations will help conserve seabirds 01-10-1515 3338
CCSBT and ACAP will discuss a Memorandum of Understanding next month in South Korea 30-09-1515 3142
Good for albatrosses and other tubenoses: Hawaii’s Lehua Island progresses towards rodent-free status 29-09-1515 4253
ACAP’s Advisory Committee to hold its Ninth Meeting in Chile next May 28-09-1515 3499
Constraints in monitoring populations of burrowing petrels: New Zealand's Grey-faced Petrel as an example 27-09-1515 2739
Head for the hills? Low-lying islands are ecological traps for Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses in the face of sea level rise 26-09-1515 3223
Thermal ecosystem engineering by Wandering Albatrosses 25-09-1515 3309
Work with Wanderers? Employment opportunities at South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island 24-09-1515 4006
ACAP to attend a South East Atlantic Fishery Organization meeting for the first time at month end 23-09-1515 7437
Fisheries risks to Antipodean Albatrosses 22-09-1515 3123
Ground or aerial census techniques best for Gibson's Antipodean Albatrosses on Adams Island? 21-09-1515 3108
Assessing aerial census techniques for counting Antipodean Albatrosses 20-09-1515 3265
Assessing the risk of accidental capture of seabirds in fisheries: a new interactive website can help 19-09-1515 3593
Manx Shearwaters joined by European Storm Petrels on the Isles of Scilly two years after the eradication of rats 18-09-1515 3933
Large numbers of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels downed by light pollution this month 16-09-1515 3866
Identifying ACAP-listed Balearic from Manx and Yelkouan Shearwaters 15-09-1515 3401
Black-browed, Campbell or Grey-headed? Separating juvenile mollymawks at sea 14-09-1515 3238
Ageing Black-browed Albatrosses 13-09-1515 3397
Employment opportunity to help develop a mouse eradication project for Gough Island 12-09-1515 5062