Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Beached giant petrels confirm Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has reached the Australian mainland

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has reached the Australian mainland. At least four giant petrels Macronectes spp. and a Brown or Subantarctic Skua Catharacta antarctica found dead on Australian beaches in Western Australia, South Australia and...
Presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus detected on Gough Island in the South Atlantic

for World Albatross Day 2026; after photographs by Chris Jones and Laurie Smaglick Johnson The high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus has now been publicly reported from Gough Island, a World Heritage Site, in the South Atlantic, following its...
ACAP’s 15th Meeting of its Advisory Committee hears Working Group reports on Day Two

Matters covered included population trends, IUCN Red List review, pollutants and marine debris, High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza, and climate change South African delegates and observers Thando Cebekhulu, Azwianewi Makhado, Andrea Angel and Makhudu...
ACAP’s 2026 Meetings start today in Namibia with a discussion of population trends

and Trends, and Threats (including management of land-based threats, pollution, climate change and High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza). The meeting will conclude with a review of the working group’s work programme for the period 2026-2028. The PaCSWG...
A public database to monitor high pathogenicity avian influenza in albatrosses and petrels

A Wandering Albatross chick that succumbed to High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza on Marion Island in November 2024, photograph by Rhiannon Gill Ralph Vanstreels (Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, University of California - Davis, USA) and...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza now reported from a seabird on Heard Island

Island, photograph by Barbara Wienecke ACAP Latest News has previously reported on the presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Southern Elephant Seals on Australia’s Heard Island, following a summer 2025/26 expedition. New information on the...
Avian influenza H5N1 has reached the French sub-Antarctic islands, killing seals and seabirds

Sampling sites for avian influenza on Possession and Kerguelen Islands. See the publication for details Augustin Clessin (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université Montpellier, France) and colleagues have published open access in Nature...
Back to Heard Island on V2 to test for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in seabirds and fur seals

on Heard Island’s south coast. These samples tested positive for the highly contagious H5 bird flu (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, click here). By the time V2 reached the island, the elephant seals would have finished breeding, but fur seals and...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza confirmed among Black-browed Albatrosses on Beauchêne Island in the South Atlantic

from previous years. Collected samples have now been confirmed to include the causative agent of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 (bird flu). Mortality on Beauchêne appears to only be affecting albatrosses – no unusual numbers of carcasses were...
Bird flu confirmed in Southern Elephant Seals on Australia’s sub-Antarctic Heard Island

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry have announced that testing has confirmed the presence of the H5 high pathogenicity avian influenza (H5 bird flu) in samples collected from Southern Elephant Seals Mirounga leonina on Heard Island – a sub-Antarctic...

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Beached giant petrels confirm Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has reached the Australian mainland

Presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus detected on Gough Island in the South Atlantic

ACAP’s 15th Meeting of its Advisory Committee hears Working Group reports on Day Two

ACAP’s 2026 Meetings start today in Namibia with a discussion of population trends

A public database to monitor high pathogenicity avian influenza in albatrosses and petrels

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza now reported from a seabird on Heard Island

Avian influenza H5N1 has reached the French sub-Antarctic islands, killing seals and seabirds

Back to Heard Island on V2 to test for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in seabirds and fur seals

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza confirmed among Black-browed Albatrosses on Beauchêne Island in the South Atlantic

Bird flu confirmed in Southern Elephant Seals on Australia’s sub-Antarctic Heard Island

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels