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title: "The Eighth Session of ACAP's Meeting of the Parties takes place next week in New Zealand"
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# The Eighth Session of ACAP's Meeting of the Parties takes place next week in New Zealand

 ![Jess Paxmonger Mack Nothern Bullers Albatross after Mike Bell](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Bullers/Jess_Paxmonger_Mack_Nothern_Bullers_Albatross_after_Mike_Bell.jpg)

 *"Baby Bullers".**Northern Buller's Albatross chick on the Chatham Islands by [ABUN](https://abun4nature.org/) artist Jess Paxmonger Mack for [World Albatross Day 2025](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2025-effects-of-disease), i**nk and paper**, after a photograph by Mike Bell*

 The Eighth Session of ACAP's Meeting of the Parties ([MoP8](https://acap.aq/documents/meeting-of-the-parties/mop8)) commences this coming Monday 19th in the [Dunedin Leisure Lodge](https://www.dunedinleisurelodge.nz/), Dunedin, New Zealand, running until Friday the 23rd.  All [13 Parties](https://acap.aq/about-acap/parties-to-acap) to the Agreement will attend the session ([MoP8 Doc 05 Rev 3](https://acap.aq/documents/meeting-of-the-parties/mop8/mop8-meeting-documents/4966-mop8-doc-05/file)).  Chinese Taipei will attend as an APEC Member Economy.  Observer organisations will be represented by IUCN, BirdLife International and  Forest & Bird..

 The session’s [26 Meeting Documents](https://acap.aq/documents/meeting-of-the-parties/mop8/mop8-meeting-documents), including the [provisional agenda](https://acap.aq/documents/meeting-of-the-parties/mop8/mop8-meeting-documents/4882-mop8-doc-01-provisional-agenda/file), and [three Information Papers](https://acap.aq/documents/meeting-of-the-parties/mop8/mop8-information-papers), are freely available for downloading and consultation on this website in all three of ACAP’s official languages, English, French and Spanish.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 16 May 2025*