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title: "Seasonal greetings and best wishes for 2020 from the ACAP Secretariat"
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# Seasonal greetings and best wishes for 2020 from the ACAP Secretariat

The ACAP Secretariat extends season’s greetings and its best wishes for an albatross- and petrel-friendly 2020 to all the readers of [ACAP Latest News](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news)and to the 4790 followers of the Agreement's [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/AlbatrossesandPetrels/).

 Next year’s inaugural World Albatross Day ([WAD2020](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3328-acap-proposes-a-world-albatross-day-to-increase-global-awareness-of-the-conservation-crisis-facing-albatrosses-and-petrels)) on 19 June with its theme “[Eradicating Island Pests](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/3394-world-albatross-day-s-theme-for-its-inaugural-year-of-eradicating-island-pests-receives-support-from-international-restoration-experts?lang=en)” will mark the attempts to eradicate House Mice on Gough and Midway Islands.  ACAP wishes all the members of the [Gough Island Restoration Programme](https://www.goughisland.com/) and the [Midway Seabird Protection Project](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3398-next-year-s-eradication-of-house-mice-on-midway-atoll-plans-to-save-black-footed-and-laysan-albatrosses-from-attack?highlight=WyJtaWR3YXkiLCJtaWR3YXkncyIsIm1pZHdheSciLCJtaWNlIiwibWljZSdzIiwibWlkd2F5IG1pY2UiXQ==) the very best of luck.

 ![ACAP Xmas card 2019 e 1](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/ACAP_Xmas_card_2019_e-1.jpg) 

 ![ACAP Xmas card 2019 f](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/ACAP_Xmas_card_2019_f.jpg)

 ![ACAP Xmas card 2019 s](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/ACAP_Xmas_card_2019_s.jpg)

 [Shy Albatrosses](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22729604) over [Albatross Island](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1343-acap-breeding-sites-no-18-albatross-island-bass-strait-home-of-australia-s-endemic-shy-albatross?highlight=WyJhbGJhdHJvc3MiLCJhbGJhdHJvc3MnIiwiYWxiYXRyb3NzJ3MiLCInYWxiYXRyb3NzJyIsIidhbGJhdHJvc3MiLCInYWxiYXRyb3NzJywiLCJiYXNzIiwibm8iLCInbm8iXQ==) and WAD2020; photograph by Drew Lee, artwork by Wiesława Misiak

 *Christine Bogle, John Cooper and Wiesława Misiak, ACAP Secretariat, 24**December**2019*