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ACAP Latest News on the Albatross and Petrel Agreement's web site aims to be a "one-stop shop" for information on the conservation of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels.  To aid the ACAP Information Officer in realizing this objective, which entails keeping abreast of what's happening globally via personal contacts and from scouring the electronic media, ACAP has been appointing a carefully-selected group of regional News Correspondents over the last year or two.

Lindsay Young, based in Oahu, Hawaii is ACAP's North Pacific News Correspondent and feeds through stories mainly on the three North Pacific albatrosses. Juan Pablo Seco Pon from Argentina is the Agreement's South American News Correspondent, an important role to fill given that six countries on this continent are Parties to the Agreement.  Lindsay and Juan Pablo have now been joined by a further two ACAP news correspondents, pretty-much filling out the global ''hot spots" for ACAP-listed species.

Maite Louzao has been appointed the ACAP European News Correspondent.  She is based in Spain, and is well-placed to report on developments in the Mediterranean and North Sea, especially as it now seems likely that next year the Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, a Critically Endangered Mediterranean endemic, will be added to the Agreement. She will also report on activities by European countries, such as France, in the Southern Ocean.

Over in New Zealand Matt Rayner has taken up the role of Australasian News Correspondent for the Agreement.  New Zealand has more ACAP-listed species than any other Party, so it is important to keep abreast of activities and developments in that region.  Because the Fifth Albatross and Petrel Conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand in less than a year's time, his appointment is a timely one.

Matt Rayner, ACAP Australasian News Correspondent

So with now excellent coverage of the main regions where albatrosses and petrels occur, we will all be trying to keep the stories coming!

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 5 September 2011