Seabird conservation status, threats and priority actions: a global assessment

By J. Croxall, S. Butchart, B. Lascelles, A. Stattersfield, B. Sullivan, Andy Symes, Phil Taylor. Bird conservation international, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology

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• Seabirds and climate change: roadmap for the future (2012, background): “Seabirds are the most threatened marine taxonomic group in the world, with ~25% of species currently listed as threatened or considered of special concern (IUCN 2011, Croxall et al. 2012).”
• Seabird population changes following mammal eradications on islands (2018, background): “Seabirds are one of the most threatened of all bird groups (Croxall et al., 2012), due to a combination of impacts at breeding locations from invasive species, especially on oceanic islands, and at-sea threats.”
• Potential consequences of discard reform for seabird communities (2013, positive): “In the past few decades, global discards have been declining (Oro 1999; Kelleher 2005; Zeller & Pauly 2005), and although many seabird populations have shown significant downward trends during this period (Croxall et al. 2012), this does not appear attributable to declining discards.”
• Migratory marine species: their status, threats and conservation management needs (2014, background): “Croxall et al. (2012) assessed 346 seabird species and found more than half were in decline, they are more threatened than any other groups of birds with 28% globally threatened, 5% in the highest category of Critically Endangered, and a further 10% Near Threatened.”
• Applying global criteria to tracking data to define important areas for marine conservation (2016, background): “Seabird declines have been caused by ten primary pressures (Croxall et al., 2012), with the exact pressures acting upon sites varying depending on the species present, the geography and the time of year.”
• Report card on ecosystem-based fisheries management in tuna regional fisheries management organizations (2018, background): “One- quarter of chondrichthyans are assessed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Dulvy et al., 2014), and considering rising catches, urgent fisheries management intervention is required (Simpfendorfer & Dulvy, 2017), especially given the recent CITES listings”
• Threats to seabirds: A global assessment (2019, methodology): “, 2014; 95 BirdLife International, 2018b) and considered seabirds to be those species for which a large proportion 96 of the population rely on the marine environment for at least part of the year (Croxall et al., 2012).”
• Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive, and increasing (2015, background): “Despite a recent extensive review of the threats to seabirds by a globally recognized authority (17), however, pollution has been identified only in a coastal context, and there is little mention of the impact of plastic ingestion, particularly on the high seas where the most threatened seabirds for”
• The conservation status and priorities for albatrosses and large petrels (2016, methodology): “According to the IUCN Red List criteria, which relate to population size, trends, and the extent and fragmentation of breeding distributions, seabirds are amongst themost threatened of all groups of birds (Croxall et al., 2012).”
• Estimating population size of a nocturnal burrow-nesting seabird using acoustic monitoring and habitat mapping (2014, background): “As a consequence of the various logistical constraints, the population sizes of many species of storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters and alcids are very poorly known (Brooke 2004; Croxall et al. 2012).”
• The incidental catch of seabirds in gillnet fisheries: A global review (2013, background): “By reviewing 343 world seabird species (as listed by Croxall et al., 2012) we identified 148 species that are potentially susceptible to entangling in gillnets due to their foraging behaviour, of which 81 have been recorded caught in fishing nets (Appendix).”