#black-footed albatross
Hawaiʻiʻs Millerbird no longer listed as critically endangered after successful relocation
Decades of conservation work led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and American Bird Conservancy has paid off for Hawaiʻi’s Millerbird, now downlisted from critically endangered to endangered status.
Federal protection of seabirds from US commercial fisheries on the horizon
In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the US Fish and Wildlife Service said this week it plans to regulate US commercial fisheries’ incidental killing of seabirds, which now is about 7,000 per year.
Mexico and US Work Together to Conserve Threatened Black-Footed Albatross
The US Fish and Wildlife Service and Pacific Rim Conservation joined with the Mexican government and a Mexican conservation group to launch a long-term conservation project to protect the black-footed albatross, a threatened seabird species.
New Albatross Chicks Hatch on Midway Atoll
Midway Atoll is the only place on Earth where Layasan, Black-footed, and endangered short-tailed albatross chicks live side by side, according to staff at the islandʻs Midway Atoll Refuge and Memorial. This year, two new chicks are joining the flock. Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross, hatched a new chick just this week. According to refuge […]
