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title: "ACAP’s collaboration with Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature is extended for another month"
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# ACAP’s collaboration with Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature is extended for another month

*![Ilana Nimz Laysan Albatross James Campbell](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2022/Ilana_Nimz_Laysan_Albatross_James_Campbell.jpg)  
Combating climate change: a translocated Laysan Albatross chick is hand-reared by [Pacific Rim Conservation](https://pacificrimconservation.org)* *in the [James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.acap.aq/search14?q=James+Campbell), a site safe from sea-level rise; artwork by ABUN artist, Ilana Nimz*

 Since the beginning of the year ACAP has been collaborating with Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature ([ABUN](https://abun4nature.org/)) over January and February on its [39th Project](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=ABUN4Nature&set=a.453687336386439) (“World Albatross Day 2022 - Climate Change”) to produce artworks that will help increase awareness of the conservation plight facing the world’s albatrosses.  This the third such collaboration with ABUN.

 ABUN #39 was due to have ended yesterday after two months, but it has been extended by Kitty Harvill, ABUN’s co-founder, to the end of March 2022.  This will allow contributing artists to submit more artworks depicting two of the three species of albatrosses that breed in the North Pacific: the [Black-footed](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-footed-albatross-phoebastria-nigripes) *Phoebastria nigripes* and the [Laysan](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/laysan-albatross-phoebastria-immutabilis) *P. immutabilis.*  These two species have been chosen to feature this year’s theme of Climate Change for World Albatross Day on 19 June ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/4241-artists-and-biologists-unite-for-nature-will-paint-albatrosses-once-more-for-world-albatross-day)).

 *![Flávia F. Barreto Black footed Albatrosses watercolout and gouache Eriic Vanderwerf](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2022/Flávia_F._Barreto_Black-footed_Albatrosses_watercolout_and_gouache_Eriic_Vanderwerf.jpg)  
At risk from storms: Black-footed Albatrosses breeding close to the shore, watercolour and gouache by Flávia Barreto; after a photograph by Eric Vanderwerf*

 In the first two months of the collaboration a total off 55 artworks has been received, 18 depicting Black-footed Albatrosses, and 37 Laysan Albatrosses.  ACAP looks forward to seeing what the ABUN artists will produce in the next four weeks.

 With grateful thanks to Kitty Harvill, Co-founder of ABUN and to all the contributing artists for supporting the conservation of albatrosses with their art.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 01 March 2022*