Japanese love brown boobies

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New home found for albatrosses
Yomiuri Shimbun
A team of Japanese and U.S. researchers promoting the protection of the albatross, an endangered seabird, has selected the Ogasawara Islands as a potential new breeding ground for the birds. ...But persuading the birds to return could be difficult...the team fears the site could be threatened by a volcanic eruption.
About the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands
... Kita-no-shima lies on the northernmost edge of the Ogasawara archipelago. ... Home to the Brown-Booby and Black-Footed albatross....

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Damn you and your misleading topic titles, Taro!!

[Taro Toporific]

Damn you and your misleading topic titles, Taro!!

Guilty as charged. :P


100,000 Albatross Petition Presented To UN
Monday, 28 June 2004, 12:53 pm
Press Release: Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
United Nations delegates in Rome were today urged to halt the illegal pirate fishing which is responsible for the mass slaughter of albatrosses [as well as Blue-footed and Brown BOOOBIES!] in the Southern Ocean when a 100,000 signature petition organised by Forest and Bird on behalf of the BirdLife International Save the Albatross campaign was presented to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) meeting...
...Longline fishing poses the most serious extinction threat to albatrosses. Pirate longline fleets primarily target Patagonian toothfish and southern bluefin tuna - both of which are also endangered - for lucrative fish markets in Japan and the US. Tuna longliners set lines of up to 100 km long carrying hundreds of millions of baited hooks; seabirds are lured onto the hooks, dragged underwater and drowned.