Season’s greetings and best wishes for 2026 from the ACAP Secretariat

As 2025 ends, the ACAP Secretariat extends its warm seasonal greetings and best wishes for the New Year to all ACAP Officials, their partners, as well as to all ACAP researchers, supporters and followers for their work on and interest in the conservation of albatrosses and petrels.

Preparations have begun for next year’s World Albatross Day (the seventh) to be celebrated on 19 June.  The theme for WAD 2026 will be “Habitat Restoration”, as has already been announced.  As in previous years there will be photo and art posters, artworks from Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) and seven related articles in ACAP Latest News for ‘WADWEEK2026’.

New ACAP Species Infographics in support of WAD2026 are being produced for the Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos and the Vulnerable Chatham Albatross T. eremita; the latter sponsored by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.  These two infographics will be the 22nd and 23rd in the 31 ACAP-listed species series.

The Fifteenth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee (AC15) and its working groups will be held from 25 May to 5 June 2026 in Swakopmund, Namibia (read more here).

The ACAP Secretariat based in Hobart, Tasmania is taking a short break over the festive period from today, returning on Monday, 5 January 2026.

The ACAP Secretariat, 24 December 2025