ACAP completes its photo poster set for World Albatross Day 2023 in Simplified and Traditional Chinese

Simplified Chinese. An Endangered Northern Royal Albatross stands over its chick at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head, New Zealand, photograph by Oscar Thomas

NOTE.  this is Day Four of 'WADWEEK2023'.

Completing its outreach to Asian high-seas fisheries as part of this year’s World Albatross Day on 19 June, the Albatross and Petrel Agreement is today releasing its set of 12 freely downloadable ‘WAD2023’ photo posters in the Chinese language, in both Simplified and Traditional character sets. This latest release follows poster sets in Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Previously, the poster set has been made available in ACAP’s three official languages of English, French and Spanish, as well as in Portuguese. The ‘WAD2023’ logo is also available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and in the other seven languages (click here).

The World Albatross Day logo for 2023 in Traditional Chinese

View and download the WAD2023 photo posters in their Chinese and in the other seven language versions here. They are also available in individual language albums on the ACAP Facebook page.

Traditional Chinese. Adolescent Endangered Northern Royal Albatrosses at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head, New Zealand, photograph by Sharyn Broni 

Simplified Chinese is the character set used on the mainland within the People's Republic of China. Traditional Chinese is used within Chinese Taipei (and in Hong Kong). Neither is a Party to the Agreement, although the latter attends ACAP meetings as an Observer in the capacity of a Member Economy of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum (APEC).

China and Chinese Taipei both have fisheries that interact with ACAP-listed species, notably through its high-seas longline fisheries for tuna in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Chinese Taipei is a member (as the Fishing Entity of Taiwan) of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) and (as the fishing entity of Chinese-Taipei) of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). China is a Contracting Party to the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) and to the WCPFC. All these Regional Fisheries Management Organizations that manage high-seas tuna stocks (tRFMOs) have adopted seabird bycatch mitigation measures that apply to their member states and entities.

ACAP has made its Seabird Bycatch Mitigation Fact Sheets and ACAP Seabird Bycatch ID Guide available in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

It is hoped the photo posters can be used within China and Chinese Taipei, as elsewhere by Asian high-seas fisheries, in increasing awareness of the conservation plight being faced by albatrosses and petrels.

With grateful thanks to Scott Pursner for providing and checking translations.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 16 June 2023