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title: "BBC Wildlife Fund supports albatross conservation"
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# BBC Wildlife Fund supports albatross conservation

The core purpose of the [BBC Wildlife Fund](http://www.bbc.co.uk/wild/) is to raise awareness and funds to save threatened wildlife and places.  In 2010 the fund has been supporting the work of the [Albatross Task Force](http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/albatross/problem/atf.asp) in Brazil through [Projeto Abatroz](http://www.projetoalbatroz.org.br/) to reduce seabird bycatch in South Atlantic fisheries, such as by encouraging the use of streamer or bird-scaring lines in longline fisheries.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Mitigation/Fact_Sheet_00_Fig1.jpg "Using streamer lines to deter birds from longlines")

 Read more on the ATF's conservation efforts in Brazil at:

  [http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/06/BBC-fund-helps-to-keep-albatrosses-off-the-hook.html](http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/06/BBC-fund-helps-to-keep-albatrosses-off-the-hook.html)

  and

  [http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-254624](http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-254624)

 Information on the at-sea movements of a pair of satellite-tracked Wandering Albatrosses in the South Atlantic may be found at the [BBC Earth Explorers](http://www.bbc.co.uk/expeditions/albatrossadventure) web site.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 25 June 2010*