Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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Seabird assemblages in Antarctica’s Drake Passage 18-12-1414 4084
Twenty-seven-year-old Northern Royal Albatross pair at Taiaroa Head incubates its 10th egg 17-12-1414 6095
Plans to control Norfolk Island’s rats and cats set to help both parrots and shearwaters 16-12-1414 4849
Call for Application: ACAP Executive Secretary, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels 15-12-1414 3944
ACAP Breeding Site No. 75. North-east Kauai, where Laysan Albatrosses breed on private lands - and a webcam has made one pair and its chick famous with two million hits 14-12-1414 10585
Black and white warning panels fixed to gill nets are expected to reduce seabird mortality: a sensory ecology review 13-12-1414 3799
Eight very large Marine Protected Areas totalling over three and a third million square kilometres surround breeding sites of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels 12-12-1414 3896
Transfer of immunity from female parent vaccinated against Newcastle Disease to chick in Cory’s Shearwater 11-12-1414 3326
The University of Barcelona produces a documentary on seabird bycatch in the Mediterranean in Catalán and Spanish 10-12-1414 3677
The ACAP Secondment Programme calls for 2015 applications 09-12-1414 3828
The symbolism of the albatross in Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick 08-12-1414 9856
Does the Tropical Shearwater breed in Fiji? 07-12-1414 5461
An update on research on the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater 06-12-1414 3352
Registration for the 2nd World Seabird Conference in Cape Town October 2015 opens 05-12-1414 4083
2nd Symposium on the Conservation of Marine and Coastal Birds in the Mediterranean to be held in Tunisia next February is expected to discuss the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater 04-12-1414 4669
Identifying suitable breeding sites for Hawaii’s Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters by modelling their habitat 03-12-1414 4187
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission is meeting this week and improved seabird mitigation for small vessels is on the agenda 02-12-1414 3962
Northern Royal Albatrosses return to breed in numbers on New Zealand’s mainland at Taiaroa Head 01-12-1414 4612
Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters are killed by Portuguese purse seines and set nets 30-11-1414 5225
Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway for yet another breeding season 29-11-1414 8292
Tracing Flesh-footed Shearwaters killed by fisheries to their breeding colonies via feather trace metal analysis 28-11-1414 4475
Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles 27-11-1414 4323
Assessing the levels of unobserved mortality in New Zealand longline and trawl fisheries 26-11-1414 4709
White-capped Albatrosses on New Zealand’s Auckland Islands get counted from aerial photographs over eight years, suggesting a stable population 25-11-1414 5499
Kure’s Short-tailed Albatross female-female pair returns to the atoll and lays two eggs for a fifth consecutive season 24-11-1414 4627
Conservation law and the Black Petrel: a New Zealand PhD thesis takes a legal view 23-11-1414 4500
ACAP Breeding Site No. 74. Wake Atoll, at the edge of the breeding range of North Pacific albatrosses 22-11-1414 5705
ACAP to hold its Fifth Meeting of Parties in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife in May next year 21-11-1414 4501
Call for 2015 ACAP Small Grants applications: AUD 80 000 available 20-11-1414 5243
Kiribati and the USA sign an agreement to protect the Phoenix Ocean Arc in the Pacific 19-11-1414 4676
A PhD gets awarded for studying the marine ecosystem of the Prince Edward Islands 18-11-1414 4341
South Africa’s Marion Island is still the largest from which feral cats have been eradicated – 23 years on 17-11-1414 4690
Questions to consider when planning the tracking of albatrosses and petrels by satellite or GPS 16-11-1414 4915
Black-browed and Salvin’s Albatrosses and both giant petrels visit Chilean oceanic islands in the South Pacific 15-11-1414 5833
ACAP attends two tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization meetings in Japan to discuss seabird bycatch in high-seas longline fisheries 14-11-1414 4075
Assessing plastic ingestion in Short-tailed and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters via the uropygial gland 13-11-1414 4124
Albatross, cat, mouse and rat: adversaries on invaded islands all get their stories told in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series 12-11-1414 8647
Cross-border collaboration to protect threatened species: the case of Canada, the USA and the Short-tailed Albatross 11-11-1414 4856
Commission on Migratory Species adopts a resolution on marine debris while meeting in Ecuador 10-11-1414 4639
Manx Shearwaters get a boost on United Kingdom islands 09-11-1414 4976
Incubation costs in seabirds, including some albatrosses and petrels, get reviewed 08-11-1414 3922
Female Black-browed Albatrosses “exhibit more variable behaviours” when foraging than do males 07-11-1414 4956
UPDATED Consensus not achieved once again: no new MPAs established in the Southern Ocean by CCAMLR this year 06-11-1414 4536
New Zealand holds a Seabird of the Year competition: will an ACAP-listed species win? 05-11-1414 4128
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project gets formally assessed as a “great result” 04-11-1414 7925
Modelling the Prince Edward Islands: home of nine species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels 03-11-1414 4632
A pledge to help the Black Petrel gets signed in New Zealand 02-11-1414 4122
Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta 01-11-1414 4609
Saving albatrosses: BirdLife South Africa’s Ross Wanless receives Environmentalist of the Year award 31-10-1414 4694
At least 15 Reindeer remain on a South Atlantic seabird island following a two-year eradication programme 30-10-1414 5444
ACAP supports the first aerial census of Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses on the UK’s Gough Island 29-10-1414 6407
Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia 28-10-1414 4548
Keeping mongooses off the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i is a priority for threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters 27-10-1414 4930
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air: “Echoes” by Pink Floyd 26-10-1414 7127
The Eleventh Chilean Ornithological Congress heard about the Pink-footed Shearwater - an ACAP candidate species – last week 25-10-1414 4702
Facing into the wind: the complicated fate of the Laysan Albatross. An illustrated account by Hugh Powell 24-10-1414 5250
Night strikes on a Tristan Rock Lobster fishing vessel do not impact on ACAP-listed petrels 23-10-1414 4816
Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel 22-10-1414 4012
Report of the latest ACAP Advisory Committee meeting announces the Fifth Meeting of Parties will convene in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife next May 21-10-1414 4076
ACAP presents a report on seabird bycatch in adjacent fisheries to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources this week 20-10-1414 4174
Australia’s sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands get a new management plan 19-10-1414 7560
Canada updates its assessment of the conservation status of the Short-tailed Albatross, a non-breeding visitor to its Pacific waters 18-10-1414 4217
Utilizing beached Manx Shearwaters to monitor environmental health 17-10-1414 7503
Alone in the Atlantic: at least one pair of Tristan Albatrosses continues to breed on mouse-free Inaccessible Island 16-10-1414 6029
Brown Skuas videoed stealing eggs from underneath incubating Northern Giant Petrels 15-10-1414 5957
Below 10% for the first time: Tristan Albatrosses have their least successful breeding year on Gough Island since recording commenced in 2000 14-10-1414 10086
Most northerly Southern Giant Petrels on Gough Island gets counted for the third year in a row, suggesting a stable population 13-10-1414 5755
Surviving in New Zealand: should the Flesh-footed Shearwater have a threatened status? 12-10-1414 3985
Female-female Laysan Albatross pairs fledge chicks from fostered eggs 11-10-1414 5538
The USA gets its second predator-proof fence to protect albatrosses and shearwaters on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i 10-10-1414 6844
Population status and threats to Flesh-footed Shearwaters in South and Western Australia 09-10-1414 4382
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas progresses seabird bycatch mitigation at a meeting in Portugal 08-10-1414 4114
Which ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels occur in the Mozambique Channel? 07-10-1414 4261
Individual differences in migration strategies of Italian Scopoli's Shearwaters 06-10-1414 4268
Pinkie and the Scarer: effectiveness of two seabird mitigation devices on Australian trawlers 04-10-1414 4740
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the conservation of albatrosses down the ages 03-10-1414 5286
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation discusses seabird mortality and mitigation this week 02-10-1414 3871
Keeping seabirds off the hook (and away from the trawl): how many FAO National Plans of Action - Seabirds have been adopted around the World since 1998? 01-10-1414 3830
President Obama expands the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument at the edge of the breeding range of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses 30-09-1414 4755
Moving iron around the Southern Ocean: what can Northern Giant Petrels contribute? 29-09-1414 4267
The at-sea distributions of albatrosses and petrels in the Southern Ocean get mapped 28-09-1414 4054
Bird-scaring lines to be adopted in the USA’s Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery to help keep Short-tailed Albatrosses off the hook 27-09-1414 3570
Manx Shearwaters breed successfully on a United Kingdom island freed of its rats 26-09-1414 4818
Work on Black-browed Albatross data from the South Atlantic: an employment opportunity in Portugal 25-09-1414 5104
From Hawaii to Oregon and California: two colour-banded Black-footed Albatrosses photographed at sea 24-09-1414 5124
Busy season: counting giant petrels in the Southern Ocean starts the round of summer censuses 23-09-1414 5608
Crossing the line: trans-equatorial migrations of the Short-tailed Shearwater shown by geolocators 22-09-1414 4645
Namibia’s NPOA-Seabirds and Gough’s mice: ACAP ends its Eighth Advisory Committee meeting in Uruguay 21-09-1414 6769
Releasing rehabilitated albatrosses and petrels: avoiding the pathogen problem 20-09-1414 4736
A Short-tailed Albatross gets hooked in USA waters 19-09-1414 4494
Looking after its endemic albatrosses and petrels: Tristan da Cunha gets an updated Biodiversity Action Plan 18-09-1414 6875
ACAP's meetings in Uruguay in pictures 17-09-1414 7997
ACAP meeting attendees brave the weather to watch giant petrels at sea in Uruguay 16-09-1414 5630
The USA publishes a progress report on the implementation of its National Plan of Action – Seabirds 15-09-1414 4017
Gough Island reckoned the highest priority for the eradication of its alien House Mice among United Kingdom’s overseas islands by a comparative review 14-09-1414 6976
Asian high-seas fishing nation increases the number of required mitigation measures for its 1000 longliners with an updated National Plan of Action - Seabirds 13-09-1414 4166
Australia updates its Threat Abatement Plan for seabird mortality caused by longline fishing 12-09-1414 4540
ACAP's Seabird Bycatch Group gets started in Punta del Este at its sixth meeting: fly-back injuries, sliding lead weights, lazy lines, hook pods and net chokes 11-09-1414 4236
ACAP’s Population and Conservation Status Working Group completes its 2014 meeting: lasers and eyeballs, hook removal guidelines and criteria for identifying candidate species for listing 10-09-1414 4348
ACAP’s Population and Conservation Working Group has a successful first day in Uruguay: robot camera, pathogen review, status and trends, the serious plight of Gough’s Tristan Albatrosses and more 09-09-1414 7490