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title: "Antipodean Albatross video prepared for last year’s inaugural World Albatross Day is up for an award"
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# Antipodean Albatross video prepared for last year’s inaugural World Albatross Day is up for an award

![Antipodean Albatross Kirk Zufelt Kitty Harvill](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/A/Antipodean/Antipodean_Albatross_Kirk_Zufelt_Kitty_Harvill.jpg)

 *Antipodean Albatross, artwork by Kitty Harvill from a photograph by Kirk Zufelt*

 A video directed by Brendan Donovan and presented by [Live Ocean](https://liveocean.com/), a “marine conservation charity with a mission to amplify and accelerate positive ocean action in New Zealand”, has been selected as a 2021 [Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award](https://myhero.com/sylvia-earle-ocean-conservation-award) finalist as part of the [MY HERO International Film Festival](https://myhero.com/Films/festival).[https://myhero.com/sylvia-earle-ocean-conservation-award](https://myhero.com/sylvia-earle-ocean-conservation-award)

   *‘Sentinel of the Ocean’ a story of the plight of the Antipodean Albatross*

 The short (4 min 12 sec) [Live Ocean video](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/videos-and-lectures/3726-sentinel-of-the-ocean?highlight=WyJsaXZlIiwiJ2xpdmUnLiIsIm9jZWFuIiwib2NlYW4ncyIsIidvY2VhbiIsIm9jZWFuJyIsIm9jZWFuJy4iLCJ2aWRlbyIsImxpdmUgb2NlYW4iXQ==)was released last year to mark the inaugural [World Albatross Day](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2020-eradicating-island-pests) on 19 June to draw attention to the conservation crisis facing New Zealand’s endemic Antipodean Albatross *Diomedea antipodensis* ([globally Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/antipodean-albatross-diomedea-antipodensis) and [Nationally Critical](http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/antipodean-albatross)).  [world-albatross-day/videos-and-lectures/3726-sentinel-of-the-ocean?highlight=WyJsaXZlIiwiJ2xpdmUnLiIsIm9jZWFuIiwib2NlYW4ncyIsIidvY2VhbiIsIm9jZWFuJyIsIm9jZWFuJy4iLCJ2aWRlbyIsImxpdmUgb2NlYW4iXQ==](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/videos-and-lectures/3726-sentinel-of-the-ocean?highlight=WyJsaXZlIiwiJ2xpdmUnLiIsIm9jZWFuIiwib2NlYW4ncyIsIidvY2VhbiIsIm9jZWFuJyIsIm9jZWFuJy4iLCJ2aWRlbyIsImxpdmUgb2NlYW4iXQ==)Winners will be announced on [World Ocean Day](https://worldoceanday.org/) on 8 June, just 11 days before this year’s [World Albatross Day](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2021-ensuring-albatross-friendly-fisheries) with its theme “Ensuring Albatross-friendly Fisheries”.  See details of all the seven finalists [here](https://myhero.com/2021-sylvia-earle-ocean-conservation-award-finalists).  Read about Live Ocean and its work for the Antipodean Albatross [here](https://liveocean.com/project/save-the-antipodean-albatross/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 16 May 2021*