Dairies
Read the latest diary entries from our campaigners who are working around the world to help save the albatross.
Name: Demétrio Carvalho
Background: Demétrio Carvalho graduated in Biology. He has extensive experience of Brazilian fishing fleets and has returned to Projeto Albatroz as a new Brazilian Task Force member and will test the mitigation measures on vessels from Itajaí.
Name: Ben Sullivan
Background: Co-ordinator of BirdLife International's Global Seabird Campaign, works with scientists around the globe to assess the seabird deaths and how to stop them. In December 2005, Ben travelled to South Georgia to find out the most recent trends in albatross and petrel numbers.
Name: António Miguel Miguéis
Background: António Miguel is a Biologist (PhD) and works with sea mammals, seabirds, fish and turtles, and worked on the 'Dolphin Safe' programme. He learned about reducing cetacean deaths from fishing in Portugal and started a cetacean stranding study network. Read his diary.
Name: Maria Honig
Background: Maria is one of our first Albatross Task Force members and is based at BirdLife South Africa, Cape Town. Maria spent the last year working for the BirdLife/WWF Responsible Fisheries Programme, before becoming a Task Force Member. Read her diary.
Name: Peter Exley
Background: The RSPB's Peter Exley has returned from a trip to South Africa to help the Albatross Task Force. He paints a rich picture of high sea adventures, the impact of trawling on seabirds and South African wildlife and culture.
Name: Olly Watts
Background: Olly embarked on a monitoring expedition to South Georgia, studying petrels. He worked alongside albatrosses, penguins, seals and some of the world's most fantastic mountains, rising out of the most notorious ocean. An opportunity he really couldn't turn down!
Name: John Craven
Background: John Craven has presented the BBC's flagship television show Countryfile for 18 years. In March 2006, he visited the Falkland Islands for the programme. Read his diary.
Name: Miriam Iorwerth
Background: Electronic Engineer, working at Halley Research Station in Antarctica. About to travel home to the UK on the RRS Ernest Shackleton, via South Georgia and the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
Name: Grahame Madge
Background: Grahame works as a Media Officer on the RSPB’s Conservation and Policy PR team. A life-long admirer of albatrosses, he recently had his first ‘encounter’ with them on the Falkland Islands.
Name: Chris Harbard
Background: Chris Harbard is an ornithologist and writer. He has travelled from the UK to Chile to meet with a group of 11 people to be their guide on a trip down to Antarctica, aboard a 160ft motor yacht, the Michaela Rose.
Name: Ellen MacArthur
Background: The record-breaking yachtswoman, who smashed the world record for navigating the globe solo in February 2005, loves the albatrosses she's seen on her long journeys. She's turning this personal passion into support for BirdLife's Save the Albatross campaign and is taking time out from her busy schedule to join a scientific count of seabirds in the South Georgia islands.
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