-
New Zealand National Partnership Meeting
Bruce McKinley, New Zealand Government At the recent New Zealand Bird Conference representatives from Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists Trust (PMNT) and the Department of Conservation (DOC) took the opportunity to hold a National Flyway Partnership meeting held on 3 June 2017. David Lawrie from PMNT and Bruce McKinlay from DOC took the lead and promoted an open relaxed side […]
Continue reading -
Toondah plan still bad news for birds
BirdLife Australia 5 June 2017 Walker Group withdraws development proposal for Toondah Harbour and submits a new plan that is still disastrous for threatened migratory shorebirds. The proposed Toondah development is part of an internationally significant wetland and the Moreton Bay Key Biodiversity Area (KBA). A recent report by BirdLife Australia lists Moreton Bay [EAAF013] as […]
Continue reading -
Seoul Mates
BirdLife Australia 5 June 2017 In late May, representatives from BirdLife Australia and BirdLife International hosted Indigenous Yawuru and Murujuga Rangers from Broome and Karratha, academics from Deakin University and representatives of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway Partnership and Woodside Energy in a visit to South Korea. While they were there they witnessed first-hand conservation work […]
Continue reading -
World Migratory Bird Day 2017 – National celebration and site managers’ workshop in Seocheon, Republic of Korea
Minjae Baek, Intern, EAAFP Secretariat The national celebration of International Day for Biological Diversity, World Wetland Day and World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2017 was held jointly at the National Institute of Ecology (NIE) in Seocheon, the Republic of Korea (RoK), from the 20th to the 24th of May. Over 700 participants from both national and […]
Continue reading -
A WMBD 2017 local event by the EAAFP Secretariat (20 April 2017 – 29 May 2017)
Ga-on Lee, Senior intern, EAAFP Secretariat After several months of preparation, our World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) event is nearing the end. I was fully involved in the preparation to promote the event through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, and also lead the local event in the G-Tower in Incheon, the Republic of Korea. I would […]
Continue reading -
All hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent
26 May 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper It’s that time of year again! The monitoring and headstarting team have arrived at the breeding grounds in Meinypil’gyno, Russia to await the return of the Spoon-billed Sandpipers, and at WWT Slimbridge, we’ve moved birds to breeding aviaries and the singing and nest scraping has begun. […]
Continue reading -
A conference on developing effective coordinated monitoring of East Asian Waterbirds in the 21st century was held in China
Yi Kunpeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences The International Conference on developing effective coordinated monitoring of East Asian Waterbirds in the 21st century was held on 6th-10th April 2017, in Hulun Lake National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia, China. More than 40 academics from 8 countries and regions, including China, Russia, Mongolia, Australia, Japan, the Republic of […]
Continue reading -
New protection for a key Spoon-billed Sandpiper site in Myanmar
26 May 2017 Christoph Zöckler, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The government of Myanmar has designated part of the Gulf of Mottama [EAAF117] in Mon State, a key site for Spoon-billed Sandpipers, as Myanmar’s fourth Ramsar site. It’s great news for Spoon-billed Sandpipers and wetland conservation in Myanmar. Myanmar is home to an extraordinary diversity of […]
Continue reading -
Spring tagging in Jiangsu, China: update from Dr. Guy Anderson
26 May 2017 Dr. Guy Anderson, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper In October 2016, we fitted satellite transmitters to three Spoon-billed Sandpipers on their autumn moult and migration staging area in the south-west corner of the Yellow Sea; in Jiangsu province, China. The tags performed very well and tracked these birds south and west to their […]
Continue reading -
Red Knots Are Battling Climate Change—On Both Ends of the Earth
The tiny, threatened bird is an omen for how devastating ocean acidification can be. By Deborah Cramer for Audubon magazine May – June 2016 The vast, unbroken beach at Bahía Lomas stretches for about 30 miles along the Strait of Magellan in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern end of South America. I’ve stood for […]
Continue reading
