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Posts are largely written by John Cooper, ACAP's Emeritus Information Officer, with guests from time to time invited to make their own contributions.
Opinions expressed in ACAP Monthly Missives are not to be taken as those of the ACAP Secretariat or any of the Agreement’s Parties.
Updated 22 April 2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Humour can help us live in the time of ecogrief and the global ecocide 03-Dec-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Featuring Patricia Pereira Serafini, ACAP Chief Officer and PhD candidate 05-Nov-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. What is the “state of play” with planned predator eradications on two sub-Antarctic islands? 11-Oct-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. What to call the shearwater Ardenna carneipes, Flesh-footed, Pale-footed or Sable? 06-Sep-2024
- The ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE: Albatross researcher Aleks Terauds is awarded the SCAR Medal for International Scientific Coordination 06-Aug-2024
- The ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE: Is there (or should there be) such a thing as a “Snowy Albatross”? 02-Jul-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Who was Osbert Salvin whose name was given to Salvin’s Albatross? 04-Jun-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. An appreciation: Kitty Harvill and Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature 07-May-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Promising signs from a rodent eradication on Floreana Island signal hope for the Critically Endangered Galapagos Petrel 02-Apr-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. A big thank you to Verena Gill of the Pacific Seabird Group for trawling the literature for us all 05-Mar-2024
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Who was Walter Buller and should Buller’s Albatross still be named after him? The tricky issue of birds with eponymous names 06-Feb-2024
- The ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. The peculiar case of the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater 12-Dec-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Guide to Seabirds of Southern Africa Second Edition by Peter Ryan – a personal review 07-Nov-2023
- UPDATED. THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Australia’s Lord Howe Island is declared free of introduced rats and mice following a successful eradication operation in 2019 10-Oct-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. 22 or 25, how many albatross species are out there? 07-Sep-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Of mice and men, and of albatrosses and petrels 08-Aug-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Ten ACAP Parties endorse the Mouse-Free Marion Project at the Thirteenth Meeting of the Advisory Committee in Edinburgh, Scotland 04-Jul-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Four years of World Albatross Days – looking back and thoughts for the future 18-Jun-2023
- The ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. A reflection on growing old with albatrosses 02-May-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Close to a decade working on some of the world’s most remote and important seabird islands by ACAP supporters Michelle Risi and Christopher Jones 03-Apr-2023
- The ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Peter Harrison’s new seabird guide: a review and a reminiscence 07-Mar-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more albatross and petrel breeding localities become World Heritage Sites? 07-Feb-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. A personal journey eradicating introduced rodents on islands by helicopter pilot Peter Garden 03-Jan-2023
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. From Dassen to Marion, a 50-year journey studying island pests 06-Dec-2022
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more shearwaters be listed by the Agreement? 01-Nov-2022
- THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE A royal connection with albatrosses. A reflection at the end of the Second Elizabethan Age 04-Oct-2022