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Southern Giant Petrels breeding within the Antarctic Treaty Area: a call for information
11 Rev 3). If you are able to assist (or know of someone else who could help), or have any questions regarding ACAP's work, contact Wiesława Misiak, ACAP Science Officer at Wieslawa.Misiak@acap.aq, who will also supply a pro-forma spread sheet for...
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Employment opportunity: two Senior Research Assistants for biological research and plant control at Gough Island World Heritage Site, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean
of contract will be from 01 August 2011 to 30 October 2012. For further information and to request the full advert text, contact Peter Ryan (pryan31@gmail.com) or Richard Cuthbert (Richard.Cuthbert@rspb.org.uk). Closing date for applications: 15 June...
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New research approaches on albatrosses from the sub-Antarctic Diego Ramírez Islands, Chile
technologies to monitor adultbirds and the first attempts to identify juvenile dispersion. For further details please contact Cristián G. Suazo, Universidad Austral de Chile, biosuazo@gmail.com. Information taken with thanks from the Pacific Seabird...
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The Peruvian Association for the Conservation of Nature makes a video on the Waved Albatross (and other seabirds) affected by fishing in Peruvian waters
of the video was supported by the USA's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation. For more information, contact Liliana Ayala at APECO at leayala@apeco.org.pe. Juan Pablo Seco Pon, ACAP South American News Correspondent, 08 March 2011
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Change and Loss in Marine Biodiversity from Bycatch in Marine Capture Fisheries: conference call
related to bycatch are encouraged. To submit abstracts and for more information or suggestions for the thematic session contact: Eric Gilman, College of Natural & Computational Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, USA, EricLGilman@gmail.com John Cooper,...
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ACAP welcomes Ecuador's new National Contact Point to the Agreement
A communication has been received that Ecuador, a Party to the Agreement, has appointed a new National Contact Point. He is Daniel Ortega, from the Environment and Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (contact at...
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PhD opportunity. Individual foraging specialisation and seabird fishery interactions: implications for albatross conservation
MARES web site to determine whether they are eligible to apply, and if they are, to submit applications by 15 January 2011. Contact Stephen Votier (stephen.votier@plymouth.ac.uk) for informal discussions. Click here and scroll to Project MARES-27-2010...
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Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference in New Zealand in 2012: dates and venue announced
of IAPC5 will be lead by New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). The current contact person for the conference is Dr David Thompson at d.thompson@niwa.co.nz. It is intended to have four days of oral and poster sessions...
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Catching fish, not birds: the Marine Stewardship Council certifies another fishery in the Southern Ocean
to the MSC "the fishery scored particularly highly on its maintenance of the ecosystem with nets designed to avoid contact with the ocean floor and extensive measures in place to limit bycatch of seabirds." A similar fishery for icefish, using both...
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Into the blogosphere: follow the Albatross Task Force on the web
teams are based in the bycatch 'hotspots' of southern Africa and South America, where albatrosses and petrels come into contact with large and diverse longline and trawl fishing fleets. The ATF is managed by BirdLife Partner organisations around the...