The Albatross Task Force a progress report
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The Albatross is a long lived bird \\u2013 one male on Bird Island in South Georgia was ringed as a chick in 1959 and still going strong. But out of the 22 Albatross species, 15 are in danger of extinction and that\\u2019s despite the remarkable success of the Albatross Task Force \\u2013 set up by the RSPB and Birdlife International more than a decade ago. On this edition of Nature\\u2019s Voice Jane Markham talks to marine biologists Titus Shaanika from the ATF team in Namibia and Cristian Suazo in Chile about their work with the fishing industry to try to reduce the number of Albatrosses killed as a \\u2018bycatch\\u2019. She also meets the RSPB\\u2019s Nina da Rocha the Albatross Task Force Project officer to find out more about the task force\\u2019s role since it was set up and looks forward to further success in the future.\\xa0
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