18/09/2024
The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is now accepting applications for its Small Grants Programme. The programme, now in its sixteenth year, provides support for projects aimed at improving the conservation status of albatrosses and petrels.
Read more, https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/applications-open-for-acaps-small-grants-programme
π· Projects that have been supported by ACAP's Small Grants Programme include (clockwise from top left): Mitigation measures with curtain systems in demersal trawl; image Β© ATF Chile: Update on EM device for compliance with bird scaring lines; Sihle Victor Ncongo holding the device he developed: Bycatch mitigation in longline SSF in Southern Peru; a section of Figure 6 from the paper: ACAP Small Grant 2023-10 - Manufacture of heavy hook; Nigel Brothers presents on the Procella hook (thumbnail of Figure 1. from the paper) to ACAP's Advisory Committee