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500 Children’s animation on saving Spoon-billed Sandpiper
This project involved 500 children and helpers from 12 areas and 8 countries (Russia, Republic of Korea, Japan, Jiangsu and Fujian in mainland China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh) which are along Spoon-billed Sandpiper’s migratory route. Children helped colouring over 1200 pictures for the animation one by one. The whole project took about 8 months […]
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A Total of 2,725 Black-faced Spoonbills recorded in the 2013 Global Census, Accounting for an Increase of 1.2% from 2012
Black-faced Spoonbill is a threatened bird species of global concern. It mainly inhabits East Asia. Over the last decade, the number of Black-faced Spoonbills had shown an upward trend with a record total of 2,725 birds this year, accounting for an increase of 1.2% from last year. Mr. YU Yat-tung, Research Manager of the Hong […]
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Cambodia loses half its seasonal wetlands in 10 years
Cambodia lost more than half of its seasonally flooded grasslands in ten years due to industrial agricultural conversion, abandonment of traditional farming, and illegal drainage, putting several endangered bird species at risk and undermining traditional livelihoods in the region, reports a new study published in the journal Conservation Biology. The research is based on aerial […]
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EAAFP Side Event and Participation at CBD COP11, Hyderabad, India
The Secretariat of the EAAFP participated in the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11) held in Hyderabad, India, from the 8th to the 19th of October 2012, to raise awareness of the importance of critical habitats for migratory waterbirds along the flyway and the role […]
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Flyway Project of Rio Tinto – BirdLife International – Wetlands International to conserve intertidal habitats, valued in billions or even trillions of dollars
Rio Tinto recently joined the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) and established a project in collaboration with BirdLife International and Wetlands International, both EAAFP Partners in 2011. The project planning meetings were held in Thailand and South Korea in February 2012 to consider how to make the most effective use of the new […]
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