• Seabird bycatch in Chile: impacts and reduction strategies
    As part of the wider work conducted by ATF instructors in our home countries, I have recently led on an initiative to publish relevant information on seabird bycatch in Chilean fisheries. The resulting...
  • Seabird-friendly fishers in the making
    When our Albatross Task Force instructors are not monitoring seabirds out at sea, they spend their time teaching fishers about seabird conservation and bycatch mitigation in key ports across South America...
  • Such is life at sea!
    Our trips at-sea don’t always turn out to be happy experiences, and we don’t always achieve our objectives when we get onboard a vessel. My last sea-trip was testament to this. It began in Puerto Madryn...
  • Encouraging seabird conservation at school!
    A year ago I had one of the biggest surprises together with my daughter Gabriela . It was through this simple conversation that I really understood the ability that children have to absorb information...
  • The threat of rats and mice to the seabirds of our oceans
    Having spent close to three months on Nightingale and then Tristan da Cunha Islands last year I was struck by the incredible seabird diversity on the uninhabited and much smaller island of Nightingale...