- Nineteen of the twenty-two species of albatross are globally threatened with extinction. Seventeen of these are located in the Southern Ocean.
- Albatrosses are among the largest flying birds, weighing up to 10 kg.
- Albatrosses pair for life and take many years to find a new mate if their partner is killed. If they find a partner at all.
- Albatrosses have a low reproductive rate (one egg per breeding season) and many species only breed every other year.
- Longlines kill more than 100,000 albatrosses and 200,000 seabirds every year. Albatrosses are dying at a rate of around one every five minutes.
Albatross caught in longline - Fabio Olmos, Birdlife International
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