ACAP releases its World Albatross Day logo for 2025, celebrating 21 years of the Agreement

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) has chosen “Effects of Disease” as its  theme  for this year's World Albatross Day (WAD2025) to be celebrated on 19 June 2025  Two versions (landscape and portrait) of the WAD2025 logo in the three ACAP official languages of English, French and Spanish, as well as in Japanese, have been released today.  The 2025 logo also marks 21 years since ACAP came into force on 01 February 2004.

This year’s theme continues the tradition of featuring specific threats that albatrosses (and ACAP-listed petrels and shearwaters) face.  It follows on from the inaugural theme “Eradicating Island Pests” in 2020, “Ensuring Albatross-friendly Fisheries” in 2021, “Climate Change” in 2022, “Plastic Pollution” in 2023, and Marine Protected Areas” in 2024.

Two new albatross species are being used to feature the theme for this year’s World Albatross Day, with artworks from Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN), species infographics and art posters (to be released next month).  They are the Endangered Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis, endemic to France’s Amsterdam Island, and the Endangered Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri, that breeds on islands in the southern Indian Ocean  The latter species is particularly at risk from Pasteurella multocida that causes avian cholera and Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae (causing erysipelas) on Amsterdam Island, where its breeding population has been decreasing.

The Agreement thanks South African graphic designer and long-time ACAP collaborator, Geoff Tyler, who has  designed ACAP’s World Albatross Day logos since the inaugural WAD in 2020.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 28 May 2025