Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

The Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project has another success as its first Newell’s Shearwater fledges

Out of its burrow and ready to go. The first Newell’s Shearwater fledges from within the Nihoku fence. Trail camara photograph by Pacific Rim Conservation In October this year the “first ever wild” Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli or ‘A‘o chick...
Introducing the first Newell’s Shearwater chick to hatch within the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Kauai

The first ever Newell’s Shearwater chick to hatch within the Nihoku exclosure The Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project aims to create a new breeding site safe from introduced predators for two threatened seabirds on the Hawaiian island on Kauai. The...
Translocation of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels establishes a breeding colony free of introduced predators on Kauai

resulting in the first predator-free breeding colony of this species.” The predator-proof fence erected as part of the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project on the island of Kauai to create a safe breeding space for translocated Newell’s Shearwaters and...
64 Laysan Albatross eggs destroyed! Feral pigs wreak destruction before a predator-proof fence is completed on Kauai

Sus scrofa domesticus. “We are heartbroken to share that 64 mōlī [Laysan Albatross] eggs were crushed or eaten by pigs on Nihoku beginning on 22 December. Trail cameras documented the pigs, and we were alerted of the events by our partners the next day....
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters are doing well on Oahu, and new hope for Newell’s Shearwaters on Kauai

census. Since 2009, the colony has more than quadrupled in size”. The first translocated Newell’s Shearwater to return to Nihoku; photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation On another Hawaiian island, Kauai, the first translocated Newell’s Shearwater...
A new predator-proof fence will protect Laysan Albatrosses in the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii

Point Natural Area Reserve and the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge) and elsewhere within the Kilauea Point NWR at Nihoku. News from Pacific Rim Conservation and Wild Times, newsletter of Friends of Kaua’i Wildlife Refuges for December 2021. John...
Relocated Hawaiian Petrels commence breeding at Nihoku on Kauai behind a predator-proof fence

The first translocated Hawaiian Petrel returns to Nihoku in May 2020, trail camera photograph by the Nihokū Ecosystem Restoration Project ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the efforts to establish a breeding colony of Endangered Hawaiian...
Do fence me in. Translocating threatened Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels

Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis within a predator-proof fence on the Hawaiian island of Kauai as part of the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project. An extract from the chapter’s Introduction follows: “The Critically Endangered Newell’s...
“It’s been a great six years”. Nearly 200 translocated Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters have fledged from behind a predator-proof fence on Kauai

The translocated chicks were placed in artificial burrows within a specially built predator-proof fence at the coastal Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. “First Flight: Hawaiian Petrels Journey...
From mountain to coast: the last year of Hawaiian Petrel translocations takes place on Kauai

Recovery Project. Twelve downy chicks were transferred to their new home within the predator-proof fence at the coastal Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site with a further eight chicks collected the next day and placed in artificial burrows. For...

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The Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project has another success as its first Newell’s Shearwater fledges

Introducing the first Newell’s Shearwater chick to hatch within the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Kauai

Translocation of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels establishes a breeding colony free of introduced predators on Kauai

64 Laysan Albatross eggs destroyed! Feral pigs wreak destruction before a predator-proof fence is completed on Kauai

Wedge-tailed Shearwaters are doing well on Oahu, and new hope for Newell’s Shearwaters on Kauai

A new predator-proof fence will protect Laysan Albatrosses in the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii

Relocated Hawaiian Petrels commence breeding at Nihoku on Kauai behind a predator-proof fence

Do fence me in. Translocating threatened Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels

“It’s been a great six years”. Nearly 200 translocated Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters have fledged from behind a predator-proof fence on Kauai

From mountain to coast: the last year of Hawaiian Petrel translocations takes place on Kauai

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