The Eighth Session of ACAP's Meeting of the Parties takes place next week in New Zealand

"Baby Bullers". Northern Buller's Albatross chick on the Chatham Islands by ABUN artist Jess Paxmonger Mack for World Albatross Day 2025, ink and paper, after a photograph by Mike Bell

The Eighth Session of ACAP's Meeting of the Parties (MoP8) commences this coming Monday 19th in the Dunedin Leisure Lodge, Dunedin, New Zealand, running until Friday the 23rd.  All 13 Parties to the Agreement will attend the session (MoP8 Doc 05 Rev 3).  Chinese Taipei will attend as an APEC Member Economy.  Observer organisations will be represented by IUCN, BirdLife International and  Forest & Bird..

The session’s 26 Meeting Documents, including the provisional agenda, and three Information Papers, are freely available for downloading and consultation on this website in all three of ACAP’s official languages, English, French and Spanish.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 16 May 2025