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Announcement for the Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia Wetland Fund 2016
Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia (RRC-EA) The Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia (RRC-EA) has supported wetland conservation projects through this grant program to assist wetland conservation and the implementation of the Ramsar Convention in our region since 2009. Twenty five projects in the region were successfully carried out since then. On average, four wetland conservation […]
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Baer’s Pochard Task Force organises surveys for the 2016 breeding season
Richard Hearn Baer’s Pochard Task Force Global Coordinator Our current knowledge of the summer distribution of Baer’s Pochard is extremely limited; the species is known to occur regularly at fewer than five sites. These birds account for a small proportion of the number counted in winter 2014-15, when a minimum of 238 individuals were located. […]
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Relevant Scientific Articles updated in March 2016
If you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. Anatidae Wlodarczyk, R., and P. Minias. 2016. Non-adaptive territory selection by a bird with exceptionally long parental care. PeerJ 4:e1852. Zhang, Y., H. H. T. Prins, L. Cao, M. Zhao, and W. F. de Boer. 2016. Variation in Elevation and Sward […]
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Science officer attends shorebirds related meetings in Australia
EAAFP Secretariat Judit Szabo, Science Officer of the EAAFP Secretariat participated in the Migratory Shorebird Conservation Planning Summit and formal launch of the Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds organized by BirdLife Australia on 7 April 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. Besides several partners and colleagues from Yellow Sea Task Force, Monitoring Task Force, Australian and […]
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Annoucement of ESP Asia Conference
Asian conference on Ecosystem Services for Nature Based Solutions 30 May-3 June, 2016, Ansan, Republic of Korea From 30 May – 3 June 2016 the Korean network on Ecosystem Services (KESNET), together with the Ecosystem Services Partnership and many Asian partners, will organise a training (30-31 May) and conference (31 May-3 June) to “Reconnect People […]
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Wedge-tailed shearwaters and the killer weeds of Big Island
Ann Jones Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) On a rocky island off the coast of Wollongong, grasses and weeds are strangling bird colonies to death. The wedge-tailed shearwaters of Big Island are in deep trouble, but as Ann Jones discovers, there’s hope for them yet. A fat muttonbird chick is pulled from a burrow. It looks […]
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Shorebirds are still being hunted, often legally
<Introduction to this article by Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP> This article addresses the vulnerability of shorebirds to different hunting pressures across their migratory range in the Americas, both legal and illegal. Illegal hunting is the theme of the 2016 World Migratory Bird Day, but legal hunting can also have an impact of shorebird […]
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DOC and China’s conservation agency agree to protect migratory birds
Press Release Fonterra and the Department of Conservation, New Zealand The Department of Conservation (DOC) and the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of China have agreed to work together to protect wetlands visited by Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits during their 12,000km migratory flights. DOC Director-General Lou Sanson and Vice-Minister Chen Fengxue, the Chinese Minister responsible […]
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‘천연기념물 201호’의 수난, 다음은 인간이다
영어로 읽기 크게 위협받는 큰고니 생태, 겨울철 도래 현황 ‘반토막’ 이경호, 오마이뉴스 겨울이 시작된지도 벌써 한참이 흘렀다. 2월 중순이면 겨울철새들은 하나둘 북상을 시작한다. 올해 우리나라를 찾아오는 겨울철새들은 월동지에서 자리를 잡아 생활하고 있는 시기를 맞았다. 각자 겨울을 보내고 수천 km를 이동하는 여행을 시작하기 위해서 월동지의 생활이 매우 중요하다. 적정하게 먹고, 에너지를 비축하지 못하면 수천 km의 이동이 […]
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Hardship for Natural Monument 201, human’s next
Read in Korean The survival of Whooper Swans is under threat, as wintering number have halved. By Kyeongho Lee of ohmynews It’s been a while since winter started. In mid-February, migratory birds that spend the winter in Korea start to return to the north. The conditions at the wintering site are very important for the birds […]
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