ACAP’s collaboration with Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature is extended for another month

Combating climate change: a translocated Laysan Albatross chick is hand-reared by Pacific Rim Conservation in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, 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) over January and February on its 39th Project (“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 Phoebastria nigripes and the Laysan 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).

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