Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Conservation Conversations with Andrea Angel, Albatross Task Force - South Africa "Seabird Conservation"

the high seas and in our harbours to help reduce the negative impacts of the fishing industry on our pelagic seabirds. To contact Andrea please email andrea.angel@birdlife.org.za or to find out more about this work please visit
A research trip after Salvin’s Albatrosses on New Zealand’s Bounty Island

getting onto the islands is a mission. We wait offshore for calm enough conditions to land, though it’s more of a full body contact scramble than a landing! We’re exceedingly cautious about picking the weather because it’s such a long way away from help...
Day One of ‘World Albatross Week 2020’. Leigh Wolfaardt creates a special artwork in celebration

Georgias del Sur)* with her husband, Anton Wolfaardt (who Co-chairs ACAP’s Seabird Bycatch Working Group) brought her into contact with breeding Wandering Albatrosses on Albatross and Prion Islands. She tells ACAP Latest News that she has a particular...
UPDATED Aves Argentinas and its Albatross Task Force work to support World Albatross Day in the face of COVID-19

yet started for the year. However, the work of ATF-Argentina is continuing from our homes; we continue to be in permanent contact with the ships and their crews through social networks to pass on updated information on the use of BSLs and to respond to...
World Albatross Day 2020 poster by Owen Davey

and highlight the need to protect these majestic birds.” To enquire about obtaining a high-resolution print of the poster contact his website at https://owendavey.com/. With thanks to Michelle Risi for initiating the contact with Owen. Read more here....
New legislation requires two bird-scaring lines for bottom trawlers in Uruguayan waters

Nacional de Medio Ambiente, Ministerio de Vivienda, Ordenamiento Territorial y Medio Ambiente) - and ACAP National Contact Point - has recently informed ACAP of a new resolution aimed at reducing the mortality of seabirds in trawl fisheries in his...
Advance party leaves Cape Town for Gough Island to eradicate its introduced mice – and save the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross

is the person who first suggested to ACAP that it consider inaugurating a World Albatross Day, and she also made the contact that resulted in Owen Davey producing his poster free of charge. Appropriate, then, that she will be able to continue her lab...
BirdLife International’s Chief Executive, Patricia Zurita supports World Albatross Day on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

for ‘WAD2020’. They are Australia, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. ACAP will keep close contact with the BirdLife partnership over marking the very first World Albatross Day come 19 June. With thanks to Nina da Rocha,...
Mexico’s Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas supports World Albatross Day by helping conserve the most easterly-breeding Laysan Albatrosses

Party to the Agreement. However, delegates from Mexico have attended and contributed to past ACAP meetings as observers and contacts are maintained between the ACAP Secretariat and Mexican officials. With thanks to Federico Méndez-Sánchez, GECI...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds joins other BirdLife national partners in supporting World Albatross Day 2020

ACAP Latest News has been using its contacts to reach out to BirdLife International partners in ACAP Parties to request support for this year’s inauguration of World Albatross Day (‘WAD2020’) on 19 June. Four national partners have so far responded...

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels