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title: "Waved Albatross now Critically Endangered"
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# Waved Albatross now Critically Endangered

 

 

The Waved Albatross *Phoebastria irrorata,* an ACAP-listed species endemic to ACAP-Party Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, has been recategorized as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International on behalf of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).  For details of this decision go to [www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/index.html](http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/index.html).

 The species is also listed on Appendix II of the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species ([www.cms.int](http://www.cms.int/)).

 

This species has been reclassified as Critically Endangered because is has an extremely small breeding range, essentially confined to one island, and evidence suggests that it has experienced a substantial recent population decline.

 

*Information from John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, posted 06 June 2008*