Adopt an albatross and help protect these taonga species and their habitat.
Albatrosses are the world's largest seabirds. They can spend over 85% of their lives at sea soaring over vast distances. Returning to land only to breed and raise their young. Thirteen varieties of toroa breed in the New Zealand region, mostly on the subantarctic islands and the Chatham group.
These include the great albatrosses such as the northern and southern royal albatross and the nationally critical Antipodean albatross. There are also the small albatrosses, also known as mollymawks, including the grey-headed, black-browed and shy albatross.
Threats
Albatrosses are in trouble. Almost all species are Vulnerable, Threatened, or Endangered. Few more so than the Antipodean albatross, in a little more than a decade, we have lost two-thirds of the population.

Fishing

Plastics and pollution

Climate change
Your adoption will help
Support our work to protect albatross and other sea birds from fisheries by-catch
Working with government, to strengthen regulation. With industry to encourage them to follow best practice. Enabling consumers to demand fish that is safely and sustainably caught.
Combat plastic pollution in the oceans
Supporting the international campaign for No Plastics in Nature working towards an UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution as well as encouraging personal action to reduce, re-use and recycle.