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title: "Once more, ACAP collaborates with ABUN, this time to paint Amsterdam and Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses for World Albatross Day"
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# Once more, ACAP collaborates with ABUN, this time to paint Amsterdam and Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses for World Albatross Day

![ABUN 49 bannre](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/ABUN_49_bannre.jpg) *Header design by Marion Schön, after photographs by Laurie Smaglick Johnson and Kirk Zufelt*

 For the sixth year running, ACAP is pleased to collaborate once more  with Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature ([ABUN](https://abun4nature.org/)).  For Project #49 the collective’s artists are being requested to produce artworks featuring the [Endangered](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/amsterdam-albatross-diomedea-amsterdamensis) Amsterdam Albatross *Diomedea amsterdamensis*, endemic to France’s Amsterdam Island, and the [Endangered](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/indian-yellow-nosed-albatross-thalassarche-carteri) Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross *Thalassarche carteri*.  The artworks will be in support of ACAP’s theme “Effects of Disease” for this year’s World Albatross Day on 19 June ([WAD2025](https://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2025-effects-of-disease)), the sixth to be held.  The project commenced on 01 April and will run until 31 May.,.

 Both species are at risk from *Pasteurella multocida* that causes avian cholera and *Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae* (causing erysipela) on Amsterdam Island.  As for [other albatrosses on islands](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai-virus-reaches-two-french-sub-antarctic-islands-killing-birds-and-seals?highlight=WyJocGFpIl0=) in the Southern Ocean, they are also at risk to the Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus.

 ![th stamp 3](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/th_stamp_3.jpg)

 Photographs of the two albatrosses are available to view in an [ABUN Facebook album](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1160425499111497&type=3)to guide and inspire the artists.  The two albatross species will also feature in this year’s World Albatross Day with a photography competition, posters and [infographics](https://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day/acap-species-educational-series/species-infographics).

 ![IYNA stamp](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/IYNA_stamp.jpg) 

 With thanks to Marion Schön, Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 02 April 2025*