Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Long-time ACAP National Contact Point for Uruguay, Marcel Calvar, retires

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP18), Geneva, Switzerland in August 2019 Marcel Calvar, ACAP National Contact Point for Uruguay since the Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MoP2), held in Christchurch, New Zealand in...
An ACAP Cartoon Competition for World Albatross Day 2023? The Australian Antarctic Division takes the lead

Second place went to Rhonda Bartley Jonathon Barrington of the Australian Antarctic Division (and Australia’s National Contact Point for ACAP) wrote to ACAP Latest News shortly after World Albatross Day 2022 on 19 June: “We thought a lot about raising...
ACAP makes its 2022 call for applications to undertake a secondment

associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications will only be accepted from ACAP Parties. Applicants are encouraged to contact the Working Group Convenors, the Advisory Committee Chair or Vice-chair, or the Secretariat to help identify ACAP priority...
Training a transferrable convolutional neural network to count breeding albatrosses – call for aerial photographs

you have data you would like to contribute to these efforts and have an interest in collaborating on this project, please contact Walter Sedgwick, Wade Sedgwick and Dave Johnston.” With thanks to Wieteke Holzhuizen. Reference: Hayes, M.C., Gray, P.C.,...
Monitor threatened albatrosses! A Field Team Leader and a Field Officer are required for Gough Island

Islands World Heritage Site.” Interviews for the two positions are planned for early May 2022. For further information contact the RSPB’s Antje Steinfurth at antje.steinfurth@rspb.org.uk. More details can be found in the Field Team Leader and Field...
Batch discarding helps reduce albatrosses and giant petrels contacting trawler warps in the South Atlantic

discarding are rare, limited to the south-western Pacific, and assess seabird numbers attending vessels only, not gear contact rates. The effectiveness of batch discarding in areas with different seabird communities, fishery assemblages, and natural...
The 2022 SCAR Open Science Conference will be hosted online by India in August

Topics. Proposals for additional sessions are welcomed. Send suggestions to info@scar.org for consideration and contact the SCAR 2022 Project Management Team for more information. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 15 December 2022
The first bait drop on Gough Island to eradicate its House Mice is completed

messages are not getting through at the moment. “We want to pass on a message that everyone is safe and well and will be in contact as/when we manage to re-establish the lines.” In this case, then a case of no (or little) news is good news. Access the...
The Australian Antarctic Division supports World Albatross Day with a new banner and an Albicake Bake Off

Tasmania in support of this important message. Mandi Livesey of the Division (and until recently ACAP’s Acting National Contact Point for ACAP) writes “Ensuring Albatross-friendly Fisheries” highlights the success of some fisheries to achieve huge...
Employment opportunity: CCAMLR advertises for a new Science Manager

must be a national of a country which is specifically listed as a Member of CCAMLR. For further information read here or contact Angie McMahon, CCAMLR Human Resources Officer. Applications are due by 30 June.+ The previous CCAMLR Science Manager, Keith...

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Long-time ACAP National Contact Point for Uruguay, Marcel Calvar, retires

An ACAP Cartoon Competition for World Albatross Day 2023? The Australian Antarctic Division takes the lead

ACAP makes its 2022 call for applications to undertake a secondment

Training a transferrable convolutional neural network to count breeding albatrosses – call for aerial photographs

Monitor threatened albatrosses! A Field Team Leader and a Field Officer are required for Gough Island

Batch discarding helps reduce albatrosses and giant petrels contacting trawler warps in the South Atlantic

The 2022 SCAR Open Science Conference will be hosted online by India in August

The first bait drop on Gough Island to eradicate its House Mice is completed

The Australian Antarctic Division supports World Albatross Day with a new banner and an Albicake Bake Off

Employment opportunity: CCAMLR advertises for a new Science Manager

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels