Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP's Secondment Programme opens for applications

2022 ACAP Secondment Applicant, Cristián Suazo, from Chile; photo supplied: Argentina's Agustina Iwan; photo supplied: Javier Quiñones from Peru; photo supplied The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is pleased to invite...
ACAP Small Grant 2023-08

Peruvian artisanal longline fleet targeting sharks to reduce the bycatch of albatrosses and petrels Project Leader: Javier Quiñones, PhD. Oficina de Investigaciones en Depredadores Superiores del Instituto del Mar del Perú. Co-investigators: Johannes...
2023 Small Grants

in the southern Peruvian artisanal longline fleet targeting sharks to reduce the bycatch of albatrosses and petrels Javier Quiñones, Oficina de Investigaciones en Depredadores Superiores del Instituto del Mar del Perú, Peru ACAP Small Grant 2023-10...
Albatross research gets featured at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2024 Annual Meeting

Buller’s Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri platei) during the artisanal longline fishery in offshore waters of southern Perú Javier Quiñones, Christopher Robertson & Carlos Zavalaga Detailedspecies composition, occurrence and behaviour of seabirds species...
Season’s Greetings and best wishes for 2024 from the ACAP Secretariat

A Buller's Albatross in a rather fetching festive hat. Photograph by Javier Quiñones Season's greetings and best wishes for 2024 from the ACAP Secretariat to everyone! In the coming year, ACAP remains dedicated to the conservation of the majestic...
Breeding population of Buller's Albatrosses on The Snares experiencing marked annual variation since peak of 2005-2006

study colonies on New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands, The Snares, were the focus for the population study; photograph by Javier Quiñones A report prepared by David Thompson and Paul Sagar (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd,...
Telling Northern and Southern Buller’s Albatrosses apart at sea off Peru

A Northern Buller’s Albatross off Peru, photograph by Javier Quiñones Javier Quiñones (Instituto del Mar del Peru) and colleagues have published in the journal Notornis on the occurrence of both subspecies of the Near Threatened Buller’s Albatross...
Whither Black-browed Albatrosses as the climate changes?

for the species and aid in the development of conservation areas under future global change scenarios.” With thanks to Javier Quiñones. Reference: Gonzalez, J.C., Orgeira, J.L., Jimenez, Y.G., Nieto, C., Romero, C., Alegre, A. & Quiñones, J. 2023....
Conservation outcomes enhanced through cross-Party collaboration: New Zealand’s Department of Conservation hosts Peruvian Javier Quiñones’ ACAP Secondment with aim to benefit Chatham, Buller’s and Salvin’s Albatrosses, and Black Petrels

Javier Quiñones with a Black Petrel chick on New Zealand's Great Barrier Island. Javier joined NZDOC's Elizabeth Bell and her team on their project on the at-sea distribution of Black Petrels; photo courtesy of Javier and NZDOC "Working on the Black...
Supporting seabird research: ACAP is delighted to announce four successful applicants to its Secondment Programme

The four successful applicants to ACAP's Secondment Programme (left to right): Agustina Iwan, Javier Quiñones, Naomi Cordeiro and Cristián Suazo Four candidates have been successful in their application to the 2022 ACAP Secondment Programme which...

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels