The importance of highly productive oceanic regions such as the Humboldt Current, the Patagonian Shelf, the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone, and the Benguela Current. These are areas where the upwelling of cold ocean currents results in rich feeding grounds for albatrosses as well as fish and other marine species
The importance of coastal and shelf areas for albatrosses while they are feeding young chicks.
The overlap between the distribution of albatrosses and areas of longline fishing. More than 300,000 seabirds, including 100,000 albatrosses, die as bycatch at the hands of longline fleets every year. This has left all 21 albatross species under global threat of extinction
The huge distances travelled on migration by some species; the Northern Royal Albatross flies up to 1,800 kilometres in 24 hours and the Grey-headed Albatross can circle the globe in 46 days.
Marine Birds
Birds that live in association with marine habitats fall into three main groups: shorebirds (such as plovers, sandpipers, etc.), water birds (such as ducks, cormorants, and loons) and seabirds (such as albatrosses, petrels, puffins, penguins, frigatebirds and boobies).
Seabirds, particularly albatrosses, are becoming increasingly threatened at a faster rate globally than all other species-groups of birds.
Seabirds face a variety of threats, both on land and at sea. Currently the most critical conservation problem facing seabirds is thought to be bycatch caused by mortality in longline fisheres.
Birds that live in association with marine habitats fall into three main groups: shorebirds (such as plovers, sandpipers, etc.), water birds (such as ducks, cormorants, and loons) and seabirds (such as 
