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The Sixth Meeting of the ACAP's Status and Trends Working Group (STWG 6) will be held jointly with the Fourth Meeting of the Breeding Sites Working Group (BSWG 4) from 25-26 August in the Unipark Hotel, Guayaquil, Ecuador, shortly before the Sixth Meeting of the Agreement's Advisory Committee takes place at the same venue.  The joint meeting will be co-convened by Rosemary Gales (Australia) and Richard Phillips (United Kingdom).

Documents to be considered at the two-day joint meeting are now available for consultation on-line.

Matters to be discussed include the proposed nomination of the Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus to the Agreement by Spain (click here), identification of internationally important breeding sites, biosecurity and eradication guidelines, census methodologies for surface-nesting albatrosses and petrels, the Red Data status of ACAP-listed species, threats arising from pathogens, parasites and disease, and the possible merger of the two working groups.

The Working Groups' reports will then be considered by ACAP's Advisory Committee meeting the following week.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 August 2011