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All hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent
26 May 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper It’s that time of year again! The monitoring and headstarting team have arrived at the breeding grounds in Meinypil’gyno, Russia to await the return of the Spoon-billed Sandpipers, and at WWT Slimbridge, we’ve moved birds to breeding aviaries and the singing and nest scraping has begun. […]
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Spring tagging in Jiangsu, China: update from Dr. Guy Anderson
26 May 2017 Dr. Guy Anderson, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper In October 2016, we fitted satellite transmitters to three Spoon-billed Sandpipers on their autumn moult and migration staging area in the south-west corner of the Yellow Sea; in Jiangsu province, China. The tags performed very well and tracked these birds south and west to their […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force: News Bulletin No.17, April 2017
The 17th Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) News Bulletin is now available here. The contents are as below. To read previous news bulletins and find out more about Spoon-billed Sandpiper, please visit our SBS TF page. Contents Foreword from the Editor Guest Editorial by Minister Min Kyi Win Workshop on SBS National Action Plan in Mawlamyine, Myanmar […]
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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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Ramsar Convention newsletter February 2017
The first Ramsar Convention Newsletter of 2017 has been published by the Ramsar Convention Secretariat. Below are some relevant news to EAAF and examples of conservation activities: More than 1,500 global events mark World Wetlands Day 2017 IUCN launches regional project to enhance resilience of wetlands in Lower Mekong countries Indonesia makes a huge move to protect the peat-filled […]
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Where have the tracked spoonies spent the last few months?
26 February 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The last time you heard from us about the birds that are being satellite tracked was on the 17 November last year. Why no news since? There simply hasn’t been much to report. But no news is good news. The birds have all spent the non-breeding season at […]
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Satellite tracking of migratory birds to take flight this year
9 January 2017 Today Online NParks plans to track 22 birds, including some Arctic breeders, over two years SINGAPORE — The National Parks Board (NParks) will launch a two-year project this year to find out more about the lives of 22 shorebirds via satellite tracking. The solar-powered satellite tracking devices, weighing 5 or 9.5g each, […]
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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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Ecologically and Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs): A Focus for Connectivity
Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat At the Tenth Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, government parties agreed on a process for describing Ecologically and Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) to notify the UN General Assembly (UNGA) of the need to effectively conserve and manage these areas. The […]
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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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