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WMBD 2019 Reports
October 2019 EAAFP – South Korea Event name:World Migratory Bird Day Event 2019 and the 2019 IFEZ Global Villages Festival in Incheon, South Korea Organizer: EAAFP Secretariat Participants:EAAFP joined 2019 IFEZ Global Village Festival in Incheon, Ro Korea and held a booth to promote WMBD on 12 October 2019 and hundreds of people stopped by the […]
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Promoting the conservation of EAAF migratory birds in freshwater wetlands at the AWGNCB Meeting, Vientiane
The countries that make up Southeast Asia are among the world’s most biodiverse. This region supports a quarter of the world’s bird species, as is the majority of the migratory bird species the use the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. To strengthen collective action and cooperation to conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable use of natural resources, the […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Teaching Kit available for free download
The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society (HKBWS) and Wild Bird Society of Japan (WBSJ) jointly published the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Teaching Kit. This kit is designed for teachers and education leaders to provide information about wetlands and the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper for lesson planning. The kit includes the general knowledge of wetlands, an illustrated story […]
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The champion of the flyway ‘Lime 07’ offers yet another surprise!
Some say that the male Lime 07 is the champion of the EAA flyway, others named it Super Spoonie! We are delighted to share that Lime 07 is still alive and likely to breed again this year in our regular monitoring site at Meinypil’gyno, Chukotka, Russia. Here is a brief timeline of Lime 07, illustrating […]
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Strengthening actions to conserve the threatened migratory waterbirds and their habitats in the East Asian – Australasian Flyway
Today, at the 10th Meeting of the Partners (MOP10) to the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) in Hainan (China), participants from over 20 countries agreed on a new strategic plan to conserve threatened migratory waterbirds and their habitats in the East Asian – Australasian Flyway. The East Asian – Australasian Flyway (EAAF), stretching […]
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Flyway Site Network of East Asian-Australasian Flyway promote collaborative effort to safeguard migratory waterbirds
At the 10th Meeting of the Partners to the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP MoP10) in Hainan, China, a total of eight new Flyway Network Sites was announced. These sites are from Bangladesh, DPR Korea, Myanmar, New Zealand, RO Korea. There are now 141 EAAFP Flyway Network Sites and collectively, these sites formed […]
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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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“Flyways – connecting people and migratory waterbirds” The Tenth Meeting of Partners for The East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership, Hainan, 10 to 14 Dec, 2018
Participants from over 20 countries are gathering for the 10th Meeting of Partners (MOP) to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) in Changjiang City (Hainan, China) from 10th to 14th December. The purpose is to discuss the conservation of migratory waterbirds and their habitats along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. During the opening ceremony, the EAAFP […]
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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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River Tern facing unfavourable future in SE Asia
The River Tern Sterna aurantia, currently listed as Near-threatened globally, is having a drastic population decline in SE Asia. Recent surveys showed the population in Cambodia has declined from 300 adults in late 1990s to only 54-62 adults currently. The Cambodian population is also estimated to form 90% of the population of the species in […]
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