In need of a new fence: Kīlauea Point’s Laysan Albatrosses have a 38% breeding success in 2019/20https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/in-need-of-a-new-fence-kilauea-point-s-laysan-albatrosses-have-a-poor-breeding-season-with-only-36-chicks-fledging

21 August 2020 A Kilauea Point Laysan Albatross, lighthouse in the background, photograph by Jacqueline Olivera The Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Kauai was established to preserve and enhance seabird breeding colonies, including the...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News

ACAP Breeding Siteshttps://www.acap.aq/ressources/acap-breeding-sites

30 April 2020 Introduction In February 2013, ACAP Latest News commenced posting a series of brief accounts describing breeding sites of ACAP-listed species. In considering what constitutes a breeding site, differences in conservation management procedures have been...

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• Author: W Misiak
• Category: Resources

Introduced cats, rats, pigs and owls are killing Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwatershttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/introduced-cats-rats-pigs-and-owls-are-killing-hawaiian-petrels-and-newell-s-shearwaters

03 April 2020 k A Hawaiian Petrel chick is removed from its burrow by a feral cat. Game camera photograph courtesy of the Kauaʻi Endangered Seabird Recovery Project André Raine (Kauaʻi Endangered Seabird Recovery Project, Kauai, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

World Albatross Day 2020 "Eradicating Island Pests" postshttps://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day-fr/wad2020-eradicating-island-pests

24 January 2020 Introduction The first World Albatross Day was celebrated on 19 June 2020. Following discussion, and consideration of the main threats facing albatrosses identified in a recent review in the scientific journal Biological Conservation, the theme of...

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• Author: W Misiak
• Category: WAD2020

A feral cat is filmed feeding on a White-capped Albatross chick on Auckland Islandhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/a-feral-cat-is-observed-feeding-on-a-white-capped-albatross-chick-on-auckland-island

07 October 2019 A feral cat Felis catus was photographed and videoed feeding from the corpse of a White-capped Albatross Thalassarche steadi chick (Near Threatened) on its nest at South-West Cape on New Zealand’s Auckland Island on 25 and 26 August this year (click...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Hands-on conservation: translocating Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwater chicks with the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Projecthttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/hands-on-conservation-translocating-hawaiian-petrels-and-newell-s-shearwater-chicks-with-the-nihoku-ecosystem-restoration-project

27 November 2018 Lindsay Young (Pacific Rim Conservation, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have published a technical report that describes the details of a project that has been translocating globally threatened Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli and...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Blue Plate Special. Help is always on hand if you are fortunate enough to be a Laysan Albatross in trouble on Kauaihttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/blue-plate-special-help-is-always-on-hand-if-you-are-fortunate-enough-to-be-a-laysan-albatross-in-trouble-on-kauai

07 March 2018 On the Hawaiian island of Kauai there are two remarkable “albatross facts”. Firstly, much of the island’s globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatross or Mōlī Phoebastria immutabilis population breeds right among the island’s human population, making...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

A Laysan Albatross fledgling attacked by a dog survives to breed five years later after rehabilitationhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/a-laysan-albatross-fledgling-attacked-by-a-dog-survives-to-breed-five-years-later-after-rehabilitation

12 December 2017 On 22 June 2012 domestic dogs entered a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis colony on private but unfenced land in Moloa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing eight chicks and injuring five more a few days before they were expected to fledge...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Not seeing the light: the US Air Force to reduce light pollution to save threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwatershttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/not-seeing-the-light-the-us-air-force-to-reduce-light-pollution-to-save-threatened-hawaiian-petrels-and-newell-s-shearwaters

31 March 2017 The United States Air Force will reduce light pollution at its radar-tracking Kōke‘e Air Force Station facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to reduce deaths to globally Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrels Pterodroma sandwichensis, Endangered Newell’s...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

A botanical fence also protects Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels from feral pigs on Kaua’ihttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/a-botanical-fence-also-protects-newell-s-shearwaters-and-hawaiian-petrels-from-feral-pigs-on-kaua-i

29 December 2014 The Limahuli Preserve on the northern coast of the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i is managed by the National Tropical Botanical Garden, a USA not-for-profit institution. The Garden’s mission is to “enrich life through discovery, scientific research,...

• Type: Article
• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB