• China Coastal Blueprint Project Launched

    The China Coastal Wetland Blueprint Project, jointly implemented by the State Forestry Administration, the Paulson Institute and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of the Academy of Sciences, held its Inception Workshop on 17-18 April 2014 in Beijing. The Blueprint project aims to assess the current status, trend and threats of […]

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  • Endangered Chinese crested tern calls Penghu home

    Posted on: July 31, 2014 by Taiwan Today   The Chinese crested tern, a seabird species numbering less than 50 worldwide, continues nesting in Taiwan’s outlying Penghu County, according to Wild Bird Society of Penghu July 31. “We are extremely excited to see the endangered species making Penghu one of its homes,” a society representative […]

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  • Appraisal of the international policy framework for the conservation of migratory shorebirds in the East Asia-Australasian Flyway (EAAF)

    A report by Ed Gallo-Cajiao, EAAFP intern.   After some months in Australia’s southeast from January through April, six weeks in the Republic of Korea from May, and two weeks in China in late June, here is a bit of a story about what I have been up to as part of my internship project on […]

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  • World Wetlands Day (WWD) Festival in South Korea

    “13th WWD Festival” took place on July 10-11 at Convensia, Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. The festival was supported by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF). In recognition of the important relationship between wellbeing and wetlands, the theme for WWD 2014 was “Wellbeing with Wetlands.” Nearly 1000 participants attended the festival, including members of government […]

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  • WWF recommends to put off the Pivotal Project of Poyang Lake Water Conservancy

    Posted on: July 25, 2014 Report by WWF China   WWF recently was informed that the Pivotal Project of Poyang Lake Water Conservancy (hereinafter referred to as the pivotal project) has been submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission and is about to enter the stage of approval. WWF has been highly concerned about […]

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  • Singapore students visited Seocheon, Republic of Korea, as part of Flyway Sister Sites and Sister Wetland Affiliations Programme

    Mr. Mohamad Azlin, National Parks Board, Singapore As part of the Sister Wetland Affiliations Programme and Flyway Sister Sites activity, linking Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR) and Geum River Estuary of Seocheon County, a group of 22 students and three teachers from River Valley High School embarked on a one-week exchange programme to the Republic […]

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  • Trip to encourage Myanmar to join EAAFP

    On June 14, Spike Millington, Chief Executive, and Minseon Kim, Program Officer, headed to Myanmar to support and follow up Myanmar’s application to join EAAFP and its nomination of Flyway Network Sites. Meetings were held with Director Win Naing Thaw and Mr. Pyi Soe Aung of the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division of the Ministry […]

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  • Singapore Intertidal Zone Conservation Symposium

    A two-day Symposium on Intertidal Conservation in Southeast Asia was held at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR) in Singapore on 12-13 June 2014, co-hosted by BirdLife International, the National Parks Board, the National University of Singapore’s Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL/NUS), and the Nature Society of Singapore. The Symposium aimed to raise awareness […]

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  • A step forward for threatened migratory waterbirds in Incheon, Korea

      Incheon and Gyeonggi tidal flats are important for a great number of migratory bird species, which are now at risk through rapid urban development and reclamation of coastal areas. The EAAFP secretariat has been calling meetings to take proactive measure to halt the unsustainable development in this area with key stakeholders including central and […]

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  • Yongjeong Island, July 12

    Posted on: July 13, 2014 Author: Tim Edelsten Report by Birds Korea   Bird News from Tim Edelsten At a construction site for the planned new runway, an opportunistic Saunders’s Gull colony has been active recently (via SKS). A parent was photographed feeding a well-grown chick here on July 2nd (OSH). Today little activity remained, […]

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