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title: "World Albatross Day adopts an official logo"
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# World Albatross Day adopts an official logo

The Albatross and Petrel Agreement will be launching [World Albatross Day](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) next year on 19 June, with the theme for 2020 of “[Eradicating Island Pests](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3394-world-albatross-day-s-theme-for-its-inaugural-year-of-eradicating-island-pests-receives-support-from-international-restoration-experts)”.

 Up until then, ACAP will concentrate on spreading the word via electronic and printed media to establish a level of awareness of the forthcoming inaugural day.  To help with this aim a logo is required.  Seabird researcher [Michelle Risi](https://blogs.sun.ac.za/antarcticlegacy/2019/10/09/south-africa-leads-the-way-in-initiating-a-world-albatross-day/), currently undertaking her second year of field work without a break on Gough Island (and a member of the Agreement’s World Albatross Day Intersessional Group), put ACAP in touch with her old school friend, Geoffry Tyler, a South African commercial artist.  Very kindly, Geoff agreed to design a ‘WAD Logo’ *pro bono* in his spare time.  An initial draft was circulated to ‘WAD Group’ members for comments, from which after some tweaking, the final version depicted here was produced.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Logos/WAD_Logo.png)

 The final design is based on a blue, all-water globe to emphasize that albatrosses are ocean wanderers *non pareil*.  It also symbolically is not “hemispherecentric” since albatrosses occur and breed in both northern and southern hemispheres which is also why no continents are shown.  The outline of a flying albatross is that used by ACAP on its own logo to provide a recognizable link to the Agreement.

 ACAP’s Information Officer met up with Geoff recently in a Cape Town coffee shop to express ACAP’s grateful thanks for the logo design and present him with a coffee-table book on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands for his good work.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/People/008.jpg)

 ACAP’s Information Officer (left) thanks Geoffry Tyler for his logo design

 Geoff joins cartoonist Marc Parchow of [Qual Albatroz](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3367-qual-albatroz-cartoons-help-raise-sof-next-year-s-world-albatross-day?highlight=WyJtYXJjIiwibWFyYydzIl0=) in designing artwork for World Albatross Day awareness.

 With thanks to Ken Morgan, Michelle Risi & Geoffry Tyler.

 **Reference:**

 Terauds, A., Cooper, J., Chown, S.L. & Ryan, P.G. 2010.  [Marion and Prince Edward: Africa's Southern Islands](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/23-2010-news-archive/726-book-review-qmarion-and-prince-edward-africas-southern-islandsq-home-to-albatrosses-and-petrels?highlight=WyJyZXZpZXciLCJyZXZpZXcncyIsInRlcmF1ZHMiXQ==).  Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS.  176 pp.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 11 October 2019*