‘WADWEEK' #5. ACAP releases three art posters for World Albatross Day on 19 June

For the sixth year running, ACAP has collaborated with the international collective Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) to produce artworks depicting ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. This year the featured species are the Endangered Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis, endemic to France’s Amsterdam Island, and the southern Indian Ocean’s Endangered Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri in support of ACAP’s theme “Effects of Disease” for this year’s World Albatross Day on 19 June (WAD2025).

ABUN Project #49 ran from 01 April until 31 May, and following a grace period to allow for late submissions, resulted in 37 artworks by 25 artists becoming available for ACAP’s use in support of the conservation of albatrosses and petrels.

Seven of the artworks have been chosen to illustrate WAD2025 posters, the first three of which are depicted here. The remaining four posters will be released over the next two days. The first, shown above, is by Anju Panwar Rajesh, a freelance wildlife and bird artist who resides in Mumbai, India. Her artwork depicts repeated Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses surrounded by a swirling wave.  It is fittingly entitled "Effects of Disease".

Anju Panwar Rajesh

The ABUN website says of Anju: “Her talent for art and love for nature beautifully transforms into story telling paintings in their natural habitats.  Birds fascinate her.  The dedication and passion for wildlife conservation literally runs in her blood”.  Anju paints in a varied array of media, producing landscape, abstract, realistic and low-relief textured artworks.

The second poster is by Flávia Barreto, who  is no stranger to ACAP, having produced artworks for all the World Albatross Days since 2022., her paintings have been the subject of ACAP Latest News articles for both WAD2022 and WAD2023.  Flávia lives in Nova Friburgo, Brazil and describes herself as an amateur artist and a retired civil servant.  After retirement she decided to dedicate her life to art.  Being a lover of nature and animals, her art and interests have gradually evolved to drawing and painting threatened species (click here). She paints in watercolour, gouache and acrylics. Her painting is of an Amsterdam Albatross tending its chick, after a photograph by Anthony Buttet.

Flávia Barreto in a garden setting in Brazil

The third poster is by Andrea Siemt from Germany.  Her colourful Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross preeening its downy chick is after a photograph taken on Amsterdam Island by Dominique Filippi.

 Andrea Siemt writes to ACAP Latest News about herself: "I  live near Heidelberg in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Drawing and painting, along with photography, are my main hobbies.  About nine years ago, I discovered ABUN and have since regularly contributed my work, in charcoal, watercolour, or pastel,  to animal welfare projects".  Andrea has previously painted albatrosses for earlier World Albatross Days.

Andrea Siemt

 All seven art posters marking WAD2025 will be available for downloading and display later this month.

With thanks to all the artists who contributed to ABUN Project #49, "Effects of Disease". Thanks also to Marion Schön of ABUN who motivated the project and also designed its banner artwork depicted above.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 17 June 2025