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“Year of the Cranes” Story series #3 – What do farmers do in winter in Korea? They help to count cranes!
Every year after harvest of rice in Cheorwon, a place in Ro Korea close to the border of DPR Korea, farmers laid down their farming equipment and picked up other tools – binoculars and cameras – and contribute to the conservation of cranes. As Cheorwon is a fertile place with clean water flowing from the […]
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2020 Black-faced Spoonbill Census Results showed Black-faced Spoonbills population hits record high
The International Black-faced Spoonbill Census 2020 was released. During the 2020 Census, 4,864 Black-faced Spoonbills (BFSs) have been recorded, which is an 9% increase (i.e., 401 individuals) compared to that of last year. This is a new record high and the fourth time to hit a new high in the past five years. The International […]
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Birdwatchers, you can join us to conserve Black-faced Spoonbill! – Call for re-sighting records of individually-marked Black-faced Spoonbills
EAAFP Black-faced Spoonbill Working Group is a group of researchers working on a Black-faced Spoonbill conservation project. One of the goals is to quantify the variation in survival rate overtime and between wintering sites. We therefore need EVERY resighting record of individually-marked Black-faced Spoonbill. There have been about 700 Black-faced Spoonbill individually-marked so far and 500 […]
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”Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series #3 – Interview with China Coastal Waterbird Census Team”
Our 3rd interviewee of ”Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series is a group of people, they are China Coastal Waterbird Census (CCWC) Team, who are a group of armature bird watchers devoted to waterbird monitoring for 15 years. EAAFP: Can you briefly introduce China Coastal […]
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Nanchang Declaration released to urge effective conservation of wetlands and migratory birds during Poyang International Forum
On December 7th 2019, the “International forum on migratory bird protection of Poyang lake” was co-organized by Science Unit of EAAFP with Jianxi Provincial government, as a part of the 1st Poyang Lake International Birdwatching Week, nearby Poyang Lake, one of very important Flyway Network Sites and Ramsar Sites in the Yangtze River basin, broadly […]
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Farewell to Sulki Hwang, Administration/Finance & communication assistant
In the words of Ms. Sulki Hwang. “EAAFP Secretariat provided me an opportunity to develop myself to move forward in the directions that I have wanted to go for a long time. Since I have been long for contributing myself to be a bridge between different nations and partners for conserving the environment, I had […]
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A National Workshop for Flyway Network Site Managers Held in Japan
From 30 to 31 October 2019, at the Lake Utonai Wildlife Conservation Center in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, a workshop for EAAFP Flyway Network Site (FNS) managers in Hokkaido area was held by the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) in cooperation with Tomakomai City. Total 24 participants from local government, visitor center, and stakeholders for the FNS […]
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EAAFP engagement at CMS COP13 with the theme of “Migratory species connect the planet and together we welcome them home”
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is one of EAAFP’s intergovernmental organization Partners and has been collaborating with EAAFP closely since the early stage when EAAFP was established. EAAFP has worked with CMS on promoting World Migratory Bird Day and developing the Species Action Plans for Black-faced Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, […]
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Thompson Beach attracts international birders – Friends of Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary (FAIBS) Event at Thompson Beach
On Sunday, 15th March, FAIBS enjoyed welcoming two ‘migratory humans’ to their bird viewing event at Thompson Beach in Australia. Richard and Frances Castle, from North Staffordshire, England, are having holiday in Australia and visiting internationally recognized birding places such as Thompson Beach as they travel around. Richard is a qualified bird bander with world-wide […]
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Farewell to External Relations Assistant, Elaine Wong
In the words of Ms. Elaine Wong “I have always wanted to work under an international and multicultural environment as it allows me to broaden my horizon through exploring new cultures and meeting new people. I am glad that I was given the chance by EAAFP to start my international career as an External Relations […]
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