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AWSG North-west Australia Satellite Tracking Project – Summary (Feb-Jun 2019)
This is the fifth year the AWSG’s North-west Australia Wader and Tern Expedition team has fitted satellite transmitters on migratory waders. Five 5g transmitters were put on to Little Curlew with the hope for more success to compare to the previous studies in 2013 and 2015; and five 2g transmitters were, for the first time […]
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2019 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census Results showed new high number!
The census took place on 25th – 27th January 2019. Over 100 sites were surveyed for the wintering Black-faced Spoonbills (BFS). The census teams recorded a total of 4,463 individuals in this period, a new high figure of this species and finally a breakthrough to four thousand birds. This new high figure sees an increase […]
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Community based conservation of Baer’s Pochard in Myanmar
Baer’s Pochard © Solo Mdy Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri) has declined drastically in recent decades. In the 1990s Thailand and Bangladesh had hundreds of wintering birds, but in recent years the number has dropped to only a few birds wintering annually. Myanmar is another country with a good wintering population of Baer’s Pochard in the […]
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Results of the 2018 Knots Painting Competition: EAAFP’s activity for “Year of the Knots”
To call for attention and urgent actions to save knots, EAAFP had marked 2017 and 2018 as “Year of the Knots”. One of the campaign activities was the organization of Knots Painting Competition. The painting competitions happened both in 2017 and 2018. The 2018 Knots Painting Competition was open to participating from 31 Aug 2018 […]
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Result of 2018 Knots Painting Competition
Numbers of Knots Drawing/Painting Competition 2017 – 2018 Residences of the Participants 127 paintings are from 7 countries: 6 paintings are from Thailand, 35 are from RO Korea, 2 is from Australia, 4 are from Indonesia, 75 are from Japan, 3 are from Hong Kong, 2 are from Singapore. 65 paintings are in Category A […]
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Promoting regional cooperation to conserve short-distance migratory waterbirds in Southeast Asia
At the 10th Meeting of the Partners to the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP MoP10) in Hainan, China, thirty-seven Partners of the EAAFP agreed to collaborate and promote the importance of the conservation of short-distance migratory waterbirds and their habitats in the Southeast Asian region. Mr How Choon Beng (NParks, Singapore) said, “Besides […]
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MoP 10
Period: 10-14 December 2018 Venue: Changjiang City, Hainan Island, P.R. China Note: pre-meeting day on 9 December for Working Groups and Task Forces to meet if they so wish. Contact: secretariat@eaaflyway.net Final Discussion Papers You can find the compilation of MoP10 final discussion papers from [here] and final decision papers from [here]. You can also find these […]
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Ten Countries Agree The “HENGSHUI DECLARATION” To Save Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri) From Extinction In The Wild
21 MARCH 2018 On 19-20 March 2018, delegates from ten countries gathered at Hengshui Lake National Nature Reserve, in Hebei Province, China, for the first international workshop on the conservation of the Baer’s Pochard. This crucially important workshop was coordinated by the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP)’s Baer’s Pochard Task Force, which was […]
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Become a Site
This page contains information to assist Government Partners in nominating a new site to the EAAFP Flyway Site Network. Some documents are in multiple languages. Nominating a new site to the EAAFP Flyway Site Network Download in English Download in Korean LOCAL GOVERNMENT/MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY, NGO, NON-GOVERNMENTAL PARTNER, GOVERNMENTAL PARTNER Potential sites for the […]
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WMBD2017 Reports
Bangladesh | Cambodia | China | Indonesia | Republic of Korea | Mongolia | Myanmar | Philippines | Thailand | Vietnam | Bangladesh Event name: WMBD Bangladesh Organizer: Nature Conservation Society Summary: In Bangladesh, World Migratory Bird Day 2017 was celebrated in a colorful way. The main event was conducted in Moulovibazar. On the 9th of May an art competition […]
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