• Update from the SBS survey team in Rudong, China

    Author: Nigel Clark (SBS Task Force from China)   A Team lead by SBS in China and with five international wader experts; Nigel Clark from BTO, James Phillips from Natural England, Guy Anderson and Andy Schofield from RSPB and Rich Hearn from WWT, has come together to survey the autumn concentration of SBS on the […]

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  • Vietnamese Flyway and Ramsar Site Manager Workshop on 21-24 October 2014

    Together with Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia, EAAFP organised a national site manager training workshop on 21-24 October, hosted by Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, Vietnam. Participants were around 60 site managers, including different stakeholders and they were from the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, […]

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  • Shenzhen’s reach for stars puts Deep Bay wetland birds at risk

    Press release: South China Morning Post   Environmental experts said Shenzhen’s scheme to convert Deep Bay wetlands into a commercial zone would threaten many migratory birds visiting the Mai Po Nature Reserve. According to Dr Wen Xianji of WWF, Deep Bay is a very important stopover site for migratory birds within East Asian – Australasian […]

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  • Instruction to erecting of Scaly-sided Merganser artificial nest site

    General notes   Scaly-sided Merganser is extreme cavity nester. From the other hand the species inhabits only fast flowing clean rivers of third to seven order. Upper 40 km of river is not in use by this duck. Occurrence on flood-plain ponds and small creeks is irregular. Artificial nest site [ANS] occupation depends on forest […]

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  • Call for 2014 Application to the Asian Waterbird Conservation Fund

    Author: Katherine Leung (AWCF Secretariat)   The ‘Asian Waterbird Conservation Fund’ has been established to provide financial support to projects on the ground in Asia that will lead to the conservation or protection of migratory waterbirds and their wetland habitats in the East Asian – Australasian Flyway, particularly through partnership with the local community at […]

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  • ACB becomes the 33rd Partner of EAAFP

      On August 21st, EAAFP welcomed the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) as its 33rd Partner.     The ACB has a very significant role in supporting ASEAN Member States to help conserve the globally important biodiversity of South East Asia. It supports Working Groups on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity and also on Coastal and Marine Habitats. […]

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  • The ‘Monument’ Spoon-billed Sandpiper ‘01’ returns to Rudong

    Author: Christoph Zöckler (SBS Task Force Coordinator)   The male Spoon-billed Sandpiper ‘01’ has bred not far from the village Meinypilgyno in Chukotka, Russia since at least 2010, but possibly for much longer. It is named ‘monument’ SBS as it always breeds near an old monument set up by the villagers, but as it happens, the bird’s […]

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  • LONG-DISTANCE AUSSIE TRAVELLERS ‘UNDER THREAT’

    News Release by Fuller Lab   Two once-common migratory birds have been nominated this week for admission to Australia’s list of threatened species. Catastrophic recent declines in populations of the curlew sandpiper and eastern curlew have resulted in their nomination for threatened status, based on work led by researchers at the Fuller Lab and the […]

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  • Google Street View Trekker on kayak around Malaysian coastline

    News Release by Malaysian Nature Society (MNS)   Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday, 26th August 2014 –The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) today launched its most anticipated event in Malaysia, Paddle for Nature, a solo kayak expedition covering more than 2,000km of the Peninsular Malaysia coastline. Starting on 9th September 2014 in Pengkalan Kubor, Kelantan, the expedition will […]

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  • EAAFP Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Newsletter for No.12 August 2014 published

    Congratulations! The EAAFP Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) is ten years old now. SBS TF has published its 12th newsletter in August 2014. This special issue covers 1) SBS-activities in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar, 2) SBS surveys and illegal mist netting surveys in SW Guangdong, China, 3) Spring activities in Rudong, China, 4) Spring Survey […]

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