Day Three of ‘WADWEEK2026’. ACAP releases five artwork posters to celebrate World Albatross Day

 For the seventh year running, the Albatross and Petrel Agreement has collaborated with the international collective Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) to produce artworks in celebration of World Albatross Day on 19 June; this year with the theme “Habitat Restoration”.  This time, ABUN artists were asked to produce works featuring the Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos, endemic to the Tristan da Cunha islands, part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, and the Vulnerable Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita, endemic to The Pyramid, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

A total of 64 artworks was submitted, from which ABUN Co-founder, Kitty Harvill, has produced a collage poster depicting them all, and a music video co-produced with John Nicolosi (which also includes photographs that inspired the artists).  Five of these artworks illustrating both species by different artists have been chosen to illustrate posters marking World Albatross Daym as shown above and below.

The posters will be loaded as high-resolution versions to the website here for free downloading, printing and display.  It is intended to produce versions in French and Spanish.

With thanks to Kitty Harvill, the five ABUN poster artists, Lois Davis, Georgia Field, Deepti Jain, Anju Rajesh and Peter Shearer, and Ruth Cooper.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 15 May 2026