ACAP Latest News

Read about recent developments and findings in procellariiform science and conservation relevant to the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels in ACAP Latest News.

Title Published Date
Moonlight or wind: which effects Streaked Shearwaters’ colony comings and goings the most? 31/10/18
Australia publishes its National Plan of Action - Seabirds 30/10/18
Downed Newell’s Shearwater fledglings get a ceremony on release and Hawaiian Petrel chicks get translocated on Kauai 29/10/18
Eleventh Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2019: First Circular released 26/10/18
Research position available for a marine ornithologist studying burrowing petrels on sub-Antarctic Marion Island 25/10/18
Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings are at risk to light pollution in both Malta and the Balearic Islands this month 24/10/18
Gough Island’s alien mice estimated to kill up two million seabirds each year but an eradication effort is planned for 2020 23/10/18
Some up, some down, trends in albatross numbers on French sub-Antarctic islands 22/10/18
Scopoli’s Shearwaters scavenge fishery discards in the Ionian Sea 19/10/18
Foraging range of Scopoli's Shearwaters in the eastern Mediterranean 18/10/18

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to their populations.

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