BirdGuides 061a427d-1a08-42f7-80e7-5af1f8909dc0 Tracking data from 63 satellite-tagged Antipodean Albatrosses has revealed crucially important data on where the species encounters the highest accidental bycatch to the fishing industry. Antipodean Albatross breeds on islands off New Zealand, yet could be functionally extinct within two decades as a result of shockingly high levels of fisheries-related deaths. The albatross can live in excess of 70 years, and only starts breeding from the age of 10. Even then, it only lays a single egg during each breeding attempt (usually every two years). The slow rate of reproduction makes this giant seabird highly vulnerable to human threats. In 2018 its conservation status was uplisted to Endangered on the basis that more than half of its breeding population had been lost since 2004.