Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

No place like a new home? First Translocated Black-footed Albatross returns to Isla Guadalupe

Bruno, the 3 year-old Black-footed Albatross that has returned to Mexico's Isla Guadalupe; photograph © GECI / J.A. Soriano The first Black-footed Albatross from an international translocation project has returned to its new home on Isla Guadalupe in...
A moving effort for conservation. Another batch of Black-footed Albatross eggs is successfully translocated to Mexico

Black-footed Albatrosses nesting on the shores of Midway Atoll, a low-lying Hawaiian island vulnerable to climate change and the catalyst behind the translocation project which is aiming to establish a new colony on Mexico's remote Guadalupe Island....
Translocated Black-footed Albatrosses fledge from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island for the third year of an international project

| Airborne! A translocated Black-footed chick close to fledging takes a leap on Guadalupe Island, photograph by J.A. Soriano, Conservación de Islas (GECI) The third year of a binational project to establish a breeding colony of Black-footed Albatrosses...
New research shows seabird populations benefit from restoration and relocation efforts

A Black-footed Albatross chick sits near a decoy bird on Mexico's Guadalupe Island; photo courtesy of Pacific Rim Conservation. According to the research, active restoration programmes targeting albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters which involve the...
Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii

This Laysan Albatross pair seems safe from climate change 500 m above the sea in the Kuaokala Game Management Area on Oahu, photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation For some years, ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on conservation management...
Towards a new national breeding species: Mexico fledges 34 translocated Black-footed Albatrosses from Isla Guadalupe

All the way from Midway Atoll as an egg: a colour-banded Black-footed Albatross prepares to fledge from Isla Guadalupe; photograph from GECI Thirty-four of the 35 Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks that were translocated to Isla...
Combating climate change: Pacific Rim Conservation’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge and Isla Guadalupe Seabird Translocation Projects

NOTE: The Hawaiian-based environmental NGO Pacific Rim Conservation works to combat the effects of climate change on Hawaii’s procellariform seabirds through its No Net Loss initiative. Two of these species are the ACAP-listed and Near Threatened...
Second year of the Guadalupe translocation to establish a Mexican breeding population of the Black-footed Albatross is underway

A translocated Black-footed Albatross close to fledging gets airborne on Isla Guadalupe in 2021, blue pen drawing by ABUN artist.Snah; after a photograph (see below) by J.A. Soriano, GECI Thirty-five Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks...
Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Black-footed Albatross by Beth Flint

The Black-footed Albatross was the first new species I saw when I started my life-long love of the wildlife of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands NOTE: This post continues an occasional series that features photographs of the 31 ACAP listed species,...
Snowflake plus 26! All the translocated Black-footed Albatrosses have fledged from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island

A translocated Black-footed Albatross fledgling on Isla Guadalupe, photograph by J.A. Soriano, GECI An international Black-footed Albatross translocation project from the USA’s Midway Atoll in Hawaii to Isla Guadalupe in Mexico has met with success in...

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No place like a new home? First Translocated Black-footed Albatross returns to Isla Guadalupe

A moving effort for conservation. Another batch of Black-footed Albatross eggs is successfully translocated to Mexico

Translocated Black-footed Albatrosses fledge from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island for the third year of an international project

New research shows seabird populations benefit from restoration and relocation efforts

Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii

Towards a new national breeding species: Mexico fledges 34 translocated Black-footed Albatrosses from Isla Guadalupe

Combating climate change: Pacific Rim Conservation’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge and Isla Guadalupe Seabird Translocation Projects

Second year of the Guadalupe translocation to establish a Mexican breeding population of the Black-footed Albatross is underway

Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Black-footed Albatross by Beth Flint

Snowflake plus 26! All the translocated Black-footed Albatrosses have fledged from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels