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Latest Yellow Sea-Bohai Sea region survey of waterbirds highlights continued importance of this global bottle neck area
Taej Mundkur, Wetlands International The Yellow Sea-Bohai wetlands is well known as one the most important staging areas for millions of migratory waterbirds in the world and are used by waterbirds for feeding and resting during the both northward and southward migration along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. It is well known that waterbirds breeding in […]
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Baer’s Pochard in inland lakes of central Myanmar
Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) Baer’s Pochard, Athya baeri is globally threatened species listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN Red List 2015. It was last recorded in Indawgyi Lake [EAAF118], Inlay Lake, Kyee ni Inn, Nyaung Yan Min Hla Lake, Myitthar Lake and Taung Kan Sedaw gyi lake in 2003. No extensive survey has been […]
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Swinhoe’s Rail in Beijing
Birding Beijing Whilst I was in Dalian participating in the 2nd China International Birding Festival (more on that to come), I received an excited WeChat message from Zhao Qi informing me that Colm Moore had, just a few minutes earlier, seen a Swinhoe’s Rail at Shahe Reservoir, Beijing. Due to its secretive habits, this poorly-known […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper population revealed
19 October 2016 Olivia Bailey, Fauna & Flora International Scientists have estimated the world population of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper – a Critically Endangered shorebird – for the first time. For the first time, scientists have calculated the world population of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, after overcoming a number of difficult challenges including limited knowledge about the […]
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Whitley Award 2017 Call for Applications
Whitley Fund for Nature The Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is a UK registered charity offering ‘Whitley Awards’ to dynamic conservation leaders around the world. Whitley Awards are both an international profile prize and a form of project funding worth £35,000 over one year. The application period for the Whitley Awards 2017 is now OPEN […]
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Satellite tags to track critically-endangered Sandpipers
3 October 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The smallest satellite tag ever made is set to play a vital role in the battle to conserve the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus). The species, classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List, numbered fewer than 100 pairs in 2010. Now a conservation programme, set up in […]
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Australasian Wader Studies Group Conference
Adrian Riegen, P?korokoro-Miranda Naturalists Trust (PMNT) Every two years the Australasian Wader Study Group (AWSG) holds a conference known as the Australasian Shorebird Conference (ASC). It is usually held in different Australian state capitals and a local group of shorebird people run the conference over a weekend usually in September. It was held in Nelson in 2005, the […]
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Spike attends the 10th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference
Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat A workshop on the Conservation and Wise Use of Wetlands in North-east Asia, with a focus on the coastal wetlands of the Yellow Sea/West Sea, was held on September 21, 2016 during the 10th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference in Changsu, China. The meeting brought together representatives of the Governments […]
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Signing of Agreement on ‘Development of a Master Plan for Sustainable Use of Bako Buntal Bay [EAAF112] as Sarawak’s First EAAF Network Site’
Sarawak Forestry, 12th August 2016 Sarawak Forestry Corporation signed an agreement with Ms Rebecca Jothi D’Cruz on 12th August 2016 at Conference Room, Block A, Corporate Office to commission her on a project stated above. The objective of this agreement is to establish an effective working protocol for the development of a Master Plan for Sustainable […]
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Raising the bar for ecotourism
IUCN joins effort to align ecotourism with conservation goals Press Release Tropical Resources Institute September 12, 2016 – Honolulu, Hawaii — Among the landmark decisions emerging last week from the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress is a bold decision to improve standards for ecotourism worldwide. Motion 65, “Improving standards in […]
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