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Celebrate World Penguin Day -and the world penguin tracking database

Thursday, April 25, 2013

BirdLife International and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research have joined the British Antarctic Survey to compile a “tracking database” on six penguin species. The project is funded by the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative.

Plan to save New Zealand seabirds heralds changes to fishing practises

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Plan to save New Zealand seabirds heralds changes to fishing practises

BirdLife Partner, Forest & Bird is welcoming the release of a government-approved statement of intent to save native seabirds, including endangered albatrosses and petrels, from being killed by commercial and non-commercial fishing activity...

We need your vote to save the albatross

Friday, March 22, 2013

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A new Albatross Task Force project needs your help to win the vote for one of this year’s European Outdoor Conservation Association awards.

BirdLife’s Albatross Task Force trains Korean fisheries observers

Monday, March 18, 2013

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The BirdLife Global seabird programme has made significant progress with the East Asian fishing fleets resulting in the training of Korean fisheries observers

Landmark move to protect albatrosses in the Western and Central Pacific just announced

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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New measures agreed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission will have benefits for seabirds

Marine conservation e-Atlas marks a breakthrough in sharing data to manage the world’s oceans

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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The e-Atlas covers 3,000 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and is the first global inventory of important sites for the conservation of migratory marine species

Black-browed Albatross shows population increase

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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A new report indicates a healthy increase in the numbers of Black-browed Albatrosses breeding in the Falkland Islands.

Beck’s pulls in at the petrel station

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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A BirdLife International survey in southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, has encountered the largest single aggregation of Critically Endangered Beck’s Petrel ever recorded.

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission moves to protect albatrosses

Thursday, April 26, 2012

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The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission has agreed to measures that, if appropriately implemented by tuna longline fishing vessels, will result in significant reductions in albatross mortality.

New review reveals worrying declines in the world’s seabirds

Friday, March 9, 2012

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The status of the world’s seabirds has deteriorated rapidly over recent decades and several species and many populations are now perilously close to extinction. These are the findings of a major new review published this week in the scientific journal Bird Conservation International.

Measures to protect UK albatrosses get them off the hook in the nick of time

Saturday, November 19, 2011

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One third of the world’s albatrosses nest on the South Atlantic UK Overseas Territories: the Falkland Islands; South Georgia; and Tristan da Cunha. ICCAT manages all tuna and swordfish fisheries in the Atlantic outside territorial waters. These measures will significantly reduce the number of birds being killed.

Seabird scientists warn of flaws in New Zealand bycatch framework

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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Fifty seabird biologists have written to New Zealand’s Fisheries Minister, concerned that the proposed framework for managing the incidental mortality of seabirds in New Zealand fisheries is flawed.

New children’s book raises profile of albatrosses

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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Illustrator, Bill Bolton has used the publication of his latest book to highlight the plight of the world’s albatrosses and help support BirdLife’s Global Seabird Programme.