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Special achievement award to the Chinese Crested Tern team
At the Pacific Seabird Group banquet held at the Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 17 February 2023, a Special Achievement Award was presented to three persons who contributed to the recovery of the critically endangered Chinese Crested Tern: Dr Shuihua Chen of the Zhejiang Museum, Prof. Hsiao-wei Yuan of the National […]
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The Update: The Result of Long-term Monitoring for Far Eastern Curlew Species by Local People in Sumatra Island, Indonesia
Through the funds provided by the Hwaseong City Government, South Korea via East Asia-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) in 2021, we were able to conduct the monthly monitoring run by local people (which later we call the local monitoring team) at two sites in Sumatra Island, Indonesia: Pantai Cemara, Jambi and Bagan Serdang, North Sumatra. The monitoring […]
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A Vision for the Hwaseong Wetlands
In 2022, the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Secretariat suggested a collaboration with the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust (WWT) to produce a report on the future of the Hwaseong Wetlands, situated 50km south of Seoul. The site is an EAAFP Flyway Network Site (FNS) and partly a Wetland Protected Area, on the tidal flat element. […]
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Study Tour to learn about the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation
Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands have been cooperating to protect the Wadden Sea, a critical key stopover site for migratory waterbirds along the East Atlantic Flyway (EAF) since the Wadden Sea Flyway Initiative in 2012 established. It has been the largest coherent tidal flat system in the world as a World Heritage site in recognition […]
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World Wetlands Day 2023: It’s Time for Wetlands Restoration
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February, to commemorate the date of the adoption of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 1971 in the city of Ramsar in Iran, with the aim to raise global awareness of the importance of wetlands to people and the planet. Convened by the Secretariat of the […]
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Conference on Management of Flyways in Asia
On 23rd November 2022, EAAFP Partner, Hanns-Seidel Foundation (HSF) and the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Secretariat jointly hosted the conference on the Management of flyways of Asia, Incheon, in a hybrid format with 60 participants. The conference aimed to share experience on conservation work in EAA Flyway for the Central Asian Flyway […]
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EAAFP engagement at Ramsar COP14 with the theme “wetlands actions for people and nature”
The 14th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar COP14) was held in Wuhan, China and Geneva, Switzerland between 5th and 13th November, 2022, with a theme “Wetland Action for People and Nature”. The conference welcomed representatives from 146 Contracting Parties and 55 organizations, joining both on-site and […]
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Work and achievements of EAAFP Secretariat in collaboration with the Partners in 2022
1. Development of Flyway Site Network Designation of new Flyway Network Sites, Rongcheng Swan National Nature Reserve and Gochang Getbol In 2022, the EAAFP welcomed two new Flyway Network Sites: Rongcheng Swan National Nature Reserve from the People’s Republic of China (joined on 2nd February 2022 as EAAF 152, Read more) and Gochang Getbol from […]
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Supporting conservation of migratory waterbirds through whiskey tasting by Lotte Chilsung
Whiskey tasting can also support conservation. On 14th December, Lotte Chilsung, a beverage company in Ro Korea, donated KRW 1.35 million (About 1,000 USD) to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Foundation. The donations were raised from a tasting event of Glengoyne, a Scottish whiskey brand, held in Seoul, Ro Korea from 7th – 8th December. […]
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Literature list (Jul-Dec 2022)
1) Biology & Ecology Murray, N. J., T. A. Worthington, P. Bunting, S. Duce, V. Hagger, C. E. Lovelock, R. Lucas, M. I. Saunders, M. Sheaves, M. Spalding, N. J. Waltham, and M. B. Lyons. 2022. High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands. Science 376:744-749. Kuang, F. L., W. Wu, D. V. […]
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