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Partners
The EAAF Partnership is made up of Partners open Governments, International Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and Inter-Governmental organisations, that agree to endorse the text and supporting the objectives and actions under this Partnership. Membership is open to other Governments, International NGOs, Inter-Government organisations and members of the international business sector upon application and agreeing to endorse […]
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Declining Long-distance Shorebirds linked to Yellow Sea Mudflat Loss
Read in other languages: EAAFP Secretariat Birdwatchers have been watching, counting and monitoring shorebirds along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand for many years, resulting, at some sites, in decades-long datasets. Now, these amateur “citizen scientists” have teamed up with researchers to use this long-term information to identify trends in individual species’ populations […]
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The International EAAFP SBS Task Force met in Mawlamyine, Myanmar for their 11th meeting, 12-22 January 2017
January 2017 Pyae Phyo Aung, Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association, and Christoph Zöckler, Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Coordinator About every two years the Task Force (TF) members come together somewhere along the flyway to exchange information on their activities and discuss urgent conservation issues. The concept of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (SBS) TF for the biennial […]
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Singapore hosts two migratory bird events for the first time
9 January 2017 Today Online For the first time, Singapore is hosting two events aimed at protecting migratory birds that use a major pathway called the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF). On the agenda: The protection of a critically endangered shorebird called the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, of which an estimated 150 breeding pairs are left in the […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Meeting in Myanmar
Christoph Zockler, Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Coordinator A Two days meeting of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force will be held in Mawlamyine, Myanmar on 18-19 January 2017. To download the tentative agenda below in Word document, click here. Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Meeting January 2017 Agenda (tentative) Date: 18-19-January 2017 […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation with the STA Sustainability Education Programme
Hiroshi Tomida, Manko Waterbird and Wetland Center, Japan Ewen Mcleish, St. Andrews International School Bangkok, Thailand Kiyomi Morita, St. Andrews International School Bangkok, Thailand Introduction As can be seen already, the number of migratory shorebirds is in rapid decline, posing a serious threat to biodiversity. Expanding coastal development has caused much damage. In addition, climate change will […]
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Why ET, HU or CT might lead us to missing spoonie sites
15 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper With the third Spoon-billed Sandpiper on the move, Prof. Rhys Green gives us his insights on why these three birds could lead us to as yet unknown sites, and how that could have important implications for conservation efforts. From Prof. Rhys Green The journeys of the three tagged […]
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The third tagged Spoonie CT is off!
14 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper A satellite fix has just come in showing that the third tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper has made a move away from the Jiangsu coast! CT, presumed to be male, has been at the Tiaozini mudflats on the Jiangsu coast since he was tagged in early October. His female counterparts […]
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ET settling in at the Gulf of Mottama?
07 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper ET arrived at the Gulf of Mottama [EAAF117] in Myanmar at around 9pm on Saturday night (UTC, 2.30 am on Sunday morning local time). 12 hours later, she appeared to be moving to the north west perhaps heading on to Bangladesh after a rest in the gulf. […]
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The tagged spoonies are on the move!
04 November 2016 Guy Anderson, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Last week we announced that we had fitted the first three satellite tags to wild Spoon-billed Sandpipers, in Jiangsu Province, China in early October. The three birds – ET, HU and CT – are named after the code on the engraved plastic leg flag each bird […]
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