September 2008
Line fishers catching fewer...birds (FAO Newsroom)
Safeguards introduced in recent years to protect seabirds from longline fishing activities are successfully reducing the number of accidental bird kills, and expers are now calling for similar measures to be used in other forms of industrial fishing in areas where seabirds are at greatest risk.

September 2008
UN urges protection of seabirds (Telegraph.co.uk)
An innovative system originally designed to stop whales and seals from stealing fish has proved so effective in protecting rare birds like the albatross from becoming entangled in fishing nets that the UN has urged all fishing fleets to introduce similar measures.

September 2008
New Report Loosens Noose Around Albatross’s Neck (Science Daily article)
The survival chances of the albatross, now officially the most threatened seabird family in the world, have been improved following a new report released by WWF-South Africa.

August 2008
'Net Losses' for South African seabirds (BirdLife International)
A study of trawl fishing in South Africa suggests that around 18,000 seabirds may be killed annually in this fishery, highlighting trawl fisheries as a major threat to seabirds, especially several species of albatross already facing a risk of extinction.

August 2008
Argentinean albatross and petrels get boost (BirdLife International)
The Argentinean Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) has passed a resolution to adopt the use of mitigation measures that reduce the seabird bycatch in all vessels that operate longlines in Argentinean waters.

June 2008
Indian ocean seabirds get thrown a lifeline (BirdLife International)
The 12th meeting of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) this week (June 7-11 ) in Muscat, Oman has struck a major step forward for seabird conservation by adopting a measure to reduce the bycatch of vulnerable albatross and petrel species.

March 2008 
Wandering albatrosses follow their nose (UC Davis News & Information)
The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell.

February 2008
Albatross and long-line fishing study (ABC News, Australia)
Scientists estimate 300,000 sea birds drown each year when they eat fish caught on long lines. (AAP: Australian Antarctic Division/Graham Robertson)
The CSIRO in Hobart is involved in a study to determine the relationship between fishing activity in the Atlantic and declining albatross populations.  It is being funded by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.

February 2008
Fishing fleets take steps to protect albatross (Anchorage Daily News)
Streamer Lines: Hazing practice expected to reduce deadly hooking of seabirds.  Albatross looking for a free meal on the high seas often pay the ultimate price of being drowned, injured or killed going after baited hooks.

January 2008
Emergency regulation amends seabird avoidance requirements for Gulf of Alaska groundfish fishermen (State of Alaska media release) 
On January 24, 2008 under a delegation from the Alaska Board of Fisheries, the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game adopted an emergency regulation to amend the existing state-waters seabird avoidance regulation for longline gear.

January 2008
New methods help fishermen avoid snaring seabirds (Fishupdate.com)
FISHING fleets on the high seas of the Atlantic and Pacific from more than 30 countries will now use new ways to avoid accidentally snaring seabirds going after bait on longlines.

December 2007
On the wings of the albatross (National Geographic article)
An albatross is the grandest living flying machine on Earth. An albatross is bone, feathers, muscle, and the wind. An albatross is its own taut longbow, the breeze its bowstring, propelling its projectile body. An albatross is an art deco bird, striking of pattern, clean of line, epic in travels, heroically faithful.

30 October 2007
Greater global effort needed to protect Southern Ocean seabirds (WWF media release)
WWF will host a lunchtime seminar at Hadley's Hotel, Hobart, today to focus attention on the need for greater international efforts to protect albatross and other Southern Ocean seabirds from the threats of fishing and introduced species.

27 October 2007
Endangered wandering albatross catches prey differently than previously thought (Science Daily article)
An international team of scientists has overturned an ecological study on how some animals search for food. Previously it was believed that wandering albatrosses and other species forage using a Lévy flight strategy - a cluster of short moves connected by infrequent longer ones. Published this week in the journal Nature, the team discovered that further analyses and new data tell a different story for the albatrosses and possibly for other species too.