The Seventh Session of the Meeting of the Parties to ACAP will be a virtual one

“My Heart is Yours”, Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis for World Albatross Day 2022 by Marion Schön of Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature, in pastels; after a photograph by Hob Osterlund

The Seventh Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement (MoP7) will be held online from 9-13 May 2022 (UTC+10).  This follows on from the meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee (AC12) and two of its working groups last year, held virtually due to travel and other restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The meeting’s First Circular (available in ACAP’s three official languages of English, French and Spanish), gives key dates for notification of proposed amendments to the Agreement, circulation of meeting reports, submission of working documents and information papers, and for applications by entities to attend MoP7 as an international or non-international observer.  The circular also includes a provisional agenda for the meeting, which includes hearing a report from AC12, itself reflecting reports from its Seabird Bycatch (SBWG10) and Population and Conservation Status (PaCSWG6) Working Groups, held over August/September last year.

ACAP last met in person at AC11 in Florianópolis, Brazil during May 2019.  The previous Session of the Meeting of Parties (MoP6) was held in Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa during May 2018.

More information about the arrangements for MoP7 will be made available soon in Circular 2.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 07 March 2022