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title: "Better late, than never?  World Albatross Day 2022 posters now available in French and Spanish"
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# Better late, than never?  World Albatross Day 2022 posters now available in French and Spanish

![Fr Sunday Boy Laysan Albatross by Flávia Barreto after a photograph by Laurie Smaglick Johnson French](https://acap.aq/images/WAD2022/Fr_Sunday_Boy_Laysan_Albatross_by_Flávia_Barreto_after_a_photograph_by_Laurie_Smaglick_Johnson_French.jpg)

 The [eight artwork](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4341-acap-releases-eight-artwork-posters-for-world-albatross-day?highlight=WyJ3YWQyMDIyIiwiJ3dhZDIwMjInIiwiJ3dhZDIwMjInLiIsInBvc3RlcnMiXQ==) and [12 photo](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2022-climate-change/world-albatross-day-2022-logos-posters/4253-wad-2022-posters?highlight=WyJ3YWQyMDIyIiwiJ3dhZDIwMjInIiwiJ3dhZDIwMjInLiIsInBvc3RlcnMiXQ==) posters produced to support [World Albatross Day](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2022-climate-change) and its theme of **Climate Change** on 19 June are now available in all the three ACAP official languages of English, French and Spanish ([click here](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2022-climate-change/world-albatross-day-2022-logos-posters/4253-wad-2022-posters?highlight=WyJ3YWQyMDIyIiwiJ3dhZDIwMjInIiwiJ3dhZDIwMjInLiIsInBvc3RlcnMiXQ==)).

 The posters feature the [Black-footed](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-footed-albatross-phoebastria-nigripes) *Phoebastria nigripes* and the [Laysan](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/laysan-albatross-phoebastria-immutabilis) *P. immutabilis*.  Both these globally Near Threatened albatrosses have most of their breeding populations on the low-lying atolls of the USA’s North-Western Hawaiian Islands.  These atolls - and their breeding seabirds - are all at risk from predicted sea level rise and increases in the number and severity of storms that result in flooding, both considered a consequence of climate change.  Storm floods have even caused at least one small sandy islet to disappear into the sea, losing breeding sites for several thousand albatross pairs ([click here](https://acap.aq/latest-news/3165-where-to-for-its-birds-now-a-north-pacific-albatross-island-disappears-after-a-hurricane-hits?highlight=WyJzdG9ybSIsImJldGgiLCJiZXRoJ3MiXQ==)); elsewhere in the island chain, as on [Midway Atoll](https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/1070-the-short-tailed-albatrosses-of-midway-americas-favourite-chick-survives-a-storm?highlight=WyJtaWR3YXkiLCJtaWR3YXkncyIsIm1pZHdheSciLCJmbG9vZGluZyJd), storms have caused flooding of albatross nests and loss of chicks close to the shore.

 ![Blackfooted WAD22 3 Spanish](https://acap.aq/images/WAD2022/Blackfooted_WAD22_3_Spanish.jpg)

 Thanks are due to the five photographers and the eight artists of ABUN ([Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature](https://abun4nature.org/)) who are identified on the posters, and to ACAP supporter Michelle Risi, who designed the posters.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 08 July 2022*