ACAP MOP3 Report now published
Bonn, 21 July 2009 -The report of the third Meeting
of the Parties (MOP3) to the Agreement on the Conservation
of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP),
that took place in Bergen, Norway from 26 April –
1 May 2009, has now been published.
ACAP - The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels is a legally binding international treaty signed in 2001 with the goal to restore albatrosses and petrels - which are amongst the most endangered groups of species in the world – to a favourable conservation status.
The ACAP MOP3 report includes the key outcomes of the meeting, for example the listing of the three North Pacific albatross species in Annex 1 of ACAP, a total budget of about £620,000 per annum for the next triennium and the adoption of a template for ACAP to enter into formal (but not legally binding) arrangements with Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and other regional bodies.
AEWA was represented at the meeting by its Technical Officer, Mr. Sergey Dereliev. He reported on the addition of 20 species of seabirds to the AEWA’s species list. Although these species were not albatrosses and petrels, the listing of species that may share common conservation issues with ACAP species meant that both Agreements could benefit from closer ties. AEWA is seeking to identify areas of possible cooperation between the two bodies to improve the effective management of issues of concern for the conservation of seabirds.
Other participating IGOs and NGOs were inter alia BirdLife International, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) or the United Nations Environmental Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP/WCMC).
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