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Asian Regional Workshop on the Management of Wetlands and Flyway Sites held in September 2013
EAAFP, together with the Society for the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands (SCPW), the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of the Philippines,, the Ramsar Convention Bureau and the Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia (RRC-EA) conducted an “Asian Regional Workshop on the Management of […]
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Southeast Asian park managers set meet in Tagaytay on biodiversity
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will host the 4th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Heritage Parks (AHP) Conference, a regional dialogue addressing biodiversity issues and the sustainable management of protected areas, in the first week of October. The four-day meet will be held in Tagaytay City on October 1-4, spearheaded by the Asean Center for […]
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Guwayi shorebird tracked through science and culture
YAWURU language teacher, Maxine Charlie, remembers as a child seeing large flocks of Bar-tailed Godwits flying over the foreshore of Roebuck Bay when camping with her family. What she didn’t know at the time was that these birds carry out remarkable feats of migration between Siberia and Roebuck Bay travelling more than 10,000 kilometres each […]
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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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Fewer Ponds in Candaba mean Fewer Migrant Birds
Even in perfect weather, a smaller number of migratory birds returned to the Candaba Swamp this time around, partly because farmers now grow rice on what used to be idle ponds. Only 5,475 waterfowls of 31 resident and globetrotting species were recorded in the Asian Waterbird Census conducted by the Department of Environment and Natural […]
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EAAFP welcomes Spike Millington as new Chief Executive
Spike Millington took up the post of Chief Executive Officer of EAAFP Secretariat as of 16th May 2012. Spike has a lifelong interest in birds and their conservation, dating back to his childhood in England. He spent the last year in Washington helping USAID develop its global biodiversity strategy. For the previous ten years he […]
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EAAFP Task Force Meeting; Review of Implementation Strategy Workshop
The Implementation Strategy of the EAAFP was adapted at the First Meeting of Partners (MoP1) in November 2006 and refers to the period 2007-2011. The Implementation Strategy is the Partnership’s most important guiding document and has influence across all of its activity. A Task Force on the Review of Implementation Strategy was established to undertake […]
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EAAFP Task Force Meeting, CEPA Strategy Workshop
The EAAFP’s Working Group on CEPA, led by Lew Young, Senior Advisor for Asia-Oceania of Ramsar Convention, convened at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in Singapore on 19-21 September. Representatives from Singapore and Indonesia Government, Australasian Wader Studies Group, Society for the Conservation of Philippines Wetland, and the Ramsar Secretariat as well as the EAAFP Secretariat […]
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