Species accounts, prepared as Information Papers for the Third Session of the ACAP Meeting of Parties (MoP3), for the three North Pacific albatrosses (Short-tailed Phoebastria albatrus, Black-footed P. nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis) have now been posted to the web site at
http://www.acap.aq/en/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=115&Itemid=33.
The three accounts have been prepared in a collaboration between the USA and the ACAP Secretariat to aid MoP3 in considering a proposal to be then made by Australia and the United Kingdom for the species to be listed within the Agreement. For a background account of this proposal go to MoP3 Information Paper 04 “Listing of New Species”.
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The Third Session of ACAP’s Meeting of Parties will be held in Bergen, Norway over the period 27 April to 1 May 2008. Click here for more information on the meeting.
John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 27 January 2009