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title: "The 7th International Albatross and Petrel Conference takes place next week in Mexico.  You can read the abstracts now"
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# The 7th International Albatross and Petrel Conference takes place next week in Mexico.  You can read the abstracts now

 ![IAPC7](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/IAPC7.jpeg)The 7th International Albatross and Petrel Conference ([IAPC7](https://whova.com/web/sgc9vR4JFiNH%40FiGS%409K2nBxS0HeldQq%40iMp54q7bn8%3D/)) will be held next week in the coastal city of [Ensenada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensenada,_Baja_California), Baja California, Mexico over 20-26 May 2024.  An agenda and [Abstracts](https://whova.com/web/sgc9vR4JFiNH%40FiGS%409K2nBxS0HeldQq%40iMp54q7bn8%3D/) of the plenaries and oral presentations are now available on the conference website, revealing a number of papers being offered on ACAP-listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters.  Titles and authors of 18 presentations to be made in a [poster session](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bk3dFsnj7d8XaH6rCPD9wm6YPVozi_Hj/view) during the evening of the 21st are also available on the IAPC7 website.

 ![IAPC7 bogle](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/IAPC7_bogle.jpg)Many members of the broader ACAP community are listed as senior or co-authors of oral and poster presentations, including Christine Bogle, ACAP’s Executive Secretary, who will present a plenary on the 23rd with the title “[20 years of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels](https://whova.com/embedded/speaker_session_detail/sgc9vR4JFiNH%40FiGS%409K2nBxS0HeldQq%40iMp54q7bn8%3D/3471631/)”.  Other ACAP authors of oral presentations include Mike Double (ACAP Advisory Committee Chair), Tatiana Neves (ACAP Advisory Committee Vice-chair), Marco Favero, Patrícia Pereira Serafini and Richard Phillips (convenors, ACAP Population and Conservation Status Working Group) and Igor Debski, Dimas Gianuca and Sebastián Jiménez (convenors, ACAP Seabird Bycatch Group).

 ![IAPC7 workshop](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/IAPC7_workshop.jpg)

 Patrícia Serafini is also co-leading a workshop on the afternoon of the 23rd titled “Q&A Session and Wet Lab Training for working with Albatrosses and Petrels during the on-going High Pathogenicity H5N1 Avian Influenza Outbreak” ([click here](https://whova.com/web/sgc9vR4JFiNH%40FiGS%409K2nBxS0HeldQq%40iMp54q7bn8%3D/) for its description).  The workshop is being supported by the [ACAP Secondment Programme](https://www.acap.aq/news/awards-grants-and-scholarships/acap-secondments).  It is to be a hybrid model, with interested persons not attending the IAPC7 being able to follow the workshop virtually.  Read more about the workshop in [*ACAP Latest News*](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/acap-secondment-to-support-training-for-working-with-albatrosses-and-petrels-during-the-on-going-high-pathogenicity-h5n1-avian-influenza-outbreak?highlight=WyJzZXJhZmluaSJd).  
![IAPC7 poster](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/IAPC7_poster.jpg)*IAPC7 attendees will hear about efforts to create Mexico’s first breeding population of Black-footed Albatrosses*Phoebastria nigripes *(click here for the*[*abstract*](https://whova.com/web/sgc9vR4JFiNH%40FiGS%409K2nBxS0HeldQq%40iMp54q7bn8%3D/)*)*

 *Jo**hn Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 14 May 2024*