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title: "Mexico’s Guadalupe Island gets a World Albatross Day banner"
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# Mexico’s Guadalupe Island gets a World Albatross Day banner

![Gaudalupe 1](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/Gaudalupe_1.jpg) 

 *Emmanuel Mendoza Pérez and Ariana Duarte Canizales display GECI’s World Albatross Day banner on Guadalupe, behind a Laysan Albatross chick close to fledging*

 A late, but welcome, entry in the [World Albatross Day Banner Challenge](https://acap.aq/en/latest-news/3682-the-world-albatross-day-2020-banner-challenge-acap-announces-its-third-competition?highlight=WyJiYW5uZXIiLCInYmFubmVyIiwiYmFubmVyJyIsImJhbm5lcidzIiwiJ2Jhbm5lciciLCJiYW5uZXInLiIsImNoYWxsZW5nZSIsImNoYWxsZW5nZSciLCJjaGFsbGVuZ2UnLiIsImNoYWxsZW5nZScsIiwiYmFubmVyIGNoYWxsZW5nZSJd) arrived this week from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island, as reported to *ACAP Latest News* by [Julio César Hernández Montoya](https://islas.org.mx/directorio?ver=29#gsc.tab=0), Director de Proyecto Isla Guadalupe of the Mexican environmental NGO, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas ([GECI](https://islas.org.mx/#gsc.tab=0)).

 [Guadalupe](https://acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1412-acap-breeding-sites-no-34-isla-guadalupe-mexico-supports-an-increasing-population-of-laysan-albatrosses-despite-predation-by-feral-cats?highlight=WyJnZWNpIiwiZ2VjaSdzIl0=) supports a growing population of Laysan Albatrosses *Phoebastria immutabilis*.

 With Mexico displaying a ‘WAD2020’ banner, nearly all the countries that have breeding populations of albatrosses have helped raise awareness of the [conservation crisis](https://acap.aq/en/latest-news/3324-acap-s-advisory-committee-declares-a-conservation-crisis-for-albatrosses-and-petrels) facing albatrosses in this way (see [full list](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2020-eradicating-island-pests/competitions)).  Mexico, which has[four islands](https://acap.aq/en/resources/acap-breeding-sites) supporting breeding albatrosses, is not a Party to the Agreement, but representatives have attended ACAP meetings from time to time.

 ![Gaudalupe 3](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/Gaudalupe_3.jpg)

 *Spot the albatross!*

 The banner was made by Gabriela Fernández Ham of GECI; with thanks to Julio Montoya.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 18 June 2020*