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“Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series #9 – Interview with Ms. Serang Chung, writer in Ro Korea
Writer Serang Chung, “I like the fact that birdwatching is based on respect between birds and human” Ms. Serang Chung, a famous Korean writer and a known birdwatcher in Ro Korea. She is loved by her novel <The School Nurse Files (보건교사 안은영)> which was made into a Netflix original series and <From attentions (시선으로부터)>. […]
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2021 World Wildlife Day “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet”
On 3rd March every year, we celebrate UN World Wildlife Day, to raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. This is the day of the signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973. The 2021 theme of World Wildlife Day is “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining […]
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Seabird Survey in Goseong, Ro Korea
On 9 February 2021, Mr. Doug Watkins, Chief Executive, Ms. Vivian Fu, Communication Officer, and Ms. Seoyun Kang, Programme Assistant, joined a seabird survey lead by Dr. Nial Moores, Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Mr. Felix Glenk (Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea, EAAFP Partner) and Dr. Amaël Borzée at Goseong Coast. It is part of the survey […]
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First GPS tracking study of the Dalmatian Pelican in East Asia
After several years of careful planning, Mongolian biologists captured and color-banded 13 juvenile Dalmatian Pelicans at Khar Us Lake National Park (Flyway Network Site EAAF 128) in August 2020. Because the population situation is too fragile due to its extremely low number, we sought various advice about the methods and tools that can be used […]
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“Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series #8 – Mr. Pete Probasco, Immediate Past Chair of EAAFP
In the first Flyway story series in 2021, the Secretariat is honored to feature Mr. Pete Probasco. Until January 2021, Pete was the Chair of EAAFP and Representative of U.S.A. Pete has over 40 years of experiences of management on wetland-related work, especially in fisheries. In the past seven years, he had served the EAAFP […]
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Lianyungang, an important yet overlooked stopover site in the southern Yellow Sea
Over the past few decades, people have come to realise that tidal flats along the Yellow Sea-Bohai Bay are of paramount importance to migratory shorebirds along the East-Asian Australasian Flyway (hereafter EAAF). For example, several sites along the southern Jiangsu province of China have been recognised as the critical staging ground for globally endangered shorebirds […]
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Call for 2021 Application to the Asian Waterbird Conservation Fund (AWCF)
The AWCF was established by WWF-Hong Kong in July 2005 to provide financial support for projects at sites of importance for migratory waterbirds (including seabirds) in Asia of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway (EAAF). In late 2019, the AWCF was reformed and two new grants, the WWF Dr Lew Young Grant and the Asian […]
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New protection for Baer’s Pochard in China
On 5th February 2021, the Chinese State Forestry and Grassland Administration announced a crucially important revision of the list of national wildlife under special protection. Approved by the State Council on 4th January 2021, this is the first revision since the original list was published in 1988. It provides very welcome additional protection for a […]
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What does the revised China Protected Species list mean for EAAFP?
February 5th, the Chinese government announced the publication of a revised list of National Key Protected Wild Animal under its Wildlife Protection Law. This is the first revision since the list was originally published in 1988. Data was deficient then and the status of many species has changed significantly in the last three decades. The updating […]
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Pyeongchang Peace Forum 2021- discuss on eco-peace tourism through bird watching, Republic of Korea
Gangwon Province, Pyeong Chang County, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and Pyeong Chang 2018 Legacy Foundation organized the 2021 Pyeongchang Peace Forum (PPF, https://online.ppf.or.kr/home/eng/ppf/main/main.do), which was held in Pyeongchang Alpensia Convention Center from 7th to 9th February. Under the theme “Action Plan: Peace New Deal,” diverse topics of various sessions which discussed new strategies and […]
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