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SOSSA news...
The May pelagic
report is now online (21/06/08)
The April
Deep Water Pelagic report is now online (28/04/08)
The February and March pelagic
reports are now online (28/04/08)
The January pelagic
report is now online (09/02/08)
The December pelagic report is now online (04/01/08)
The late October,and November Wollongong pelagic reports are now online (16/12/07)
The August,
September and October, Wollongong
pelagic report is now online (09/11/07)
A sad story of a badly injured albatross. Can SOSSA come to the rescue? pdf file of article in the Illawarra Mercury (30/08/07)
The July Wollongong pelagic report is now online (09/06/07)
The June Wollongong pelagic report is now online (09/06/07)
The May Wollongong pelagic reports are now online (09/06/07)
SOSSA's own Lindsay Smith OAM wins the Serventy Conservation Medal awarded by the Wildlife Presevation Society of Australia. Full details here. (03/05/07)
Report of the Inaugral SOSSA Deep Water (20/4/07)
Apolgies for the delay but the November and December pelagic reports are now online (13/2/07)
The October Wollongong pelagic reports are now online (1/11/06)
The August Wollongong pelagic reports is now online (24/08/06)
Belatedly, the April Wollongong pelagic reports is now online (15/07/06)
The May and June Wollongong pelagic reports are now online (09/07/06)
SOSSA's own Janice Jenkin-Smith is awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for wildlife conservation (29/06/06)
The March Wollongong pelagic report is now online (12/04/06)
The January and February Wollongong pelagic reports are now online (11/03/06)
December pelagic report is now updated with photographs of long-finned pilot whales (06/03/06)
SOSSA appears in the Australian Traveller (08/02/06)
December pelagic report is now online (06/01/06)
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Upcoming pelagic birding trips...
Wollongong -
trip dates 2008 & 2009
Southport
SOSSA's
Deep Water Pelagic Expeditions 2008 |
These trips head out between 80 to 100 nautical miles
NE or SE from Ulladulla on the MV
Banks and provide 2 full days of daylight viewing.
18th to 20th October 2008
All meals provided. Price: $585
Details on the 2009 trips can be found
here.
To book a berth contact SOSSA or
read about the last Deep
Water Pelagic in
April 2008.
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Other news...
18,000
seabirds killed each year in a single fishery! (08/08/08)
Australian
fishers prosecuted for not using seabird bycatch mitigation equipment (04/01/08)
Download BirdLife's Global Seabird Programme
latest newsletter -
amazing work! (12/11/07)
Follow
Royal Albatrosses across the Pacific (31/10/07) Plus follow-up reports:
here and here.
Yet
more albatrosses die on longlines - this time Chatham albatrosses (31/10/07)
Scotland's
lonely albatross (and some good
puns) (11/07/07)
A
yellow-nosed albatross in the UK!
(11/07/07)
A
wreck of great shearwaters in the US (09/07/07)
NZ takes action on longlining (03/03/07)
500th chick hatches at Taiaroa (13/2/07)
NZ ban day setting in tuna and swordfish fishery! (31/1/07)
Birdlife applies pressure at tuna summit (23/03/07)
Seabird bycatch mitigation measures to be compulsory in the Pacific tuna fleet (22/12/06)
South Africa drags its feet on seabird conservation... (11/12/06)
More on the New Zealand albatross deaths Birdlife (02/12/06)
New Zealand close fishery after massive number of albatross deaths by a single observed vessel! (30/11/06)
Rabbits on Macquarie Island push seabirds towards the edge (30/11/06)
Bad at cricket - but step up to fund the conservation of albatrosses and petrels (14/11/06)
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