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title: "Qual Albatroz! World Albatross Day cartoons are now available in all three ACAP languages"
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# Qual Albatroz! World Albatross Day cartoons are now available in all three ACAP languages

[Marc Parchow Figueiredo](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1437-qual-albatroz-albatross-cartoonist-extraordinaire-marc-parchow-figueiredo-supports-acap?highlight=WyJxdWFsIiwiYWxiYXRyb3oiLCJhbGJhdHJveidzIiwicXVhbCBhbGJhdHJveiJd), a cartoonist residing in Portugal, has previously drawn special cartoons featuring his iconic [*Qual**Albatroz*](https://qualalbatroz.pt/) birds to mark ACAP events ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2486-marc-of-qual-albatroz-produces-a-cartoon-for-acap-s-ninth-advisory-committee-meeting-starting-today?highlight=WyJtYXJjIiwibWFyYydzIiwicXVhbCJd)).  At ACAP’s request he has also produced a three-panel series to mark next year’s inauguration of World Albatross Day ([click here for the English version](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3367-qual-albatroz-cartoons-help-raise-sof-next-year-s-world-albatross-day?highlight=WyJxdWFsIiwibWFyYyIsIm1hcmMncyJd)).

 Versions of Marc’s ‘WAD cartoons’ are now available in French (translated by Maëlle Connan) and Spanish (translated by Verónica López) as shown below.

 **FRENCH**

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/albatrozes-201fr.jpg)

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/albatrozes-202fr.jpg)

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/albatrozes-203fr.jpg)

 **SPANISH**

  ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/albatrozes-201es.jpg)

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/albatrozes-202es.jpg)

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/albatrozes-203es.jpg)

 International Cat Day referred to in the cartoons falls on 8 August ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3363-today-is-international-cat-day-what-about-albatrosses?highlight=WyJtYXJjIiwibWFyYydzIiwicXVhbCJd)).

 Currently, ACAP’s work to raise awareness of World Albatross Day is undertaken on a zero budget.  Thanks then to the [Antarctic Legacy of South Africa](https://blogs.sun.ac.za/antarcticlegacy/) for donating a [coffee-table book](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/23-2010-news-archive/726-book-review-qmarion-and-prince-edward-africas-southern-islandsq-home-to-albatrosses-and-petrels?highlight=WyJwcmluY2UiLCJwcmluY2UncyIsImVkd2FyZCIsImVkd2FyZCdzIiwidGVyYXVkcyIsImNob3duIiwicHJpbmNlIGVkd2FyZCJd) on the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands to send to Marc as a small token of his valued contributions to the conservation of albatrosses, which include sending signed prints of the original WAD cartoons with English text to ACAP.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/Marc_Parchow_PEIs_book.jpg)

 March Parchow, wearing a *Qual Albatroz* T-shirt, holds up the Marion and Prince Edward Islands book

 Marc has also produced his WAD cartoons in his home language of [Portuguese](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3367-qual-albatroz-cartoons-help-raise-sof-next-year-s-world-albatross-day?highlight=WyJxdWFsIiwibWFyYyIsIm1hcmMncyJd).  Although not an official ACAP language - as are French and Spanish - it is the one spoken in Brazil, which has been an active[Party to ACAP since December 2008](https://www.acap.aq/en/resources/parties-to-acap).  Additionally, Portugal is a range state for the ACAP-listed and [Critically Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/balearic-shearwater-puffinus-mauretanicus) Balearic Shearwater *Puffinus mauretanicus*, as birds on migration enter Portuguese waters - where they have been reported being killed by both purse seines and set nets ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1957-critically-endangered-balearic-shearwaters-are-killed-by-portuguese-purse-seines-and-set-nets?highlight=WyJwb3J0dWdhbCIsInBvcnR1Z2FsJ3MiLCJiYWxlYXJpYyJd.)).

 With thanks to Maëlle Connan, Marc Parchow Figueiredo and Verónica López.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 22 October 2019*