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The Sixth Meeting of ACAP's Status and Trends Working Group (STWG 6) is being held jointly with the Fourth Meeting of the Breeding Sites Working Group (BSWG 4) this week over two days 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 is being co-convened by Rosemary Gales (from Australia) and Richard Phillips (of the United Kingdom), with the help of Henri Weimerskirch, STWG Vice-convener (from France).

Henri Weimerskirch, Richard Phillips, Rosemary Gales and Wieslawa Misiak
take the stage as the meeting gets underway.
  Photograph by Barry Baker

Documents being considered at the joint meeting are 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).

Other items for discussion include updating the ACAP Species Assessments, 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 a proposed merger of the two working groups.

The working groups' combined report will be considered by ACAP's Advisory Committee meeting next week.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 25 August 2011