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Successful World Migratory Bird Day Oct Event 2020 – Myanmar (Nature Conservation Society – Myanmar (NCS))
“Migratory Bird” song in Burmese ©Nature Conservation Society Myanmar Event title: World Migratory Bird Day event 2020 Organizer: Nature Conservation Society (NCS)- Myanmar Participants: Overall about 12000 people viewed on “Migratory Bird” song Music Video and reached 100,000 people for all posts related to WMBD 2020 event Outcome: NCS Facebook and Youtube followers received the […]
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Global Pandemic-2020 creates a new pathway of conservation strategy in Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar
Indawgyi lake from Myanmar, an ecologically significant area in Southeast Asia, involves as partnership site in (22) countries of East Asia-Australasian Flyway. Structure of landscape and variety of habitats including open lake, floating vegetation, seasonally flooded grasslands and surrounding paddy fields provide shelter and food for at least about 20,000 migratory birds annually. From birds […]
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World Migratory Bird Day Event 2020 – Myanmar (BANCA)
Event title: World Migratory Bird Day 2020 Event by BANCA in Myanmar Organizer: Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) Participants: About 20 participants involved in outside activity of installing Ramsar awareness signboards in four villages of MonState and two villages of Bago Region Outcome: Public awareness has been raised by installing interpretive signs at key […]
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World Migratory Bird Day Event 2020 – Myanmar ( Nature Conservation Society (NCS))
Event title: World Migratory Bird Day 2020 Event by NCS in Myanmar Organizer: Nature Conservation Society-Myanmar Participants: Participants engaged in online media event, Conservationist, Bird Watchers, Bird Photographers, Bird tour guides and people who are interested in nature Outcome: The awareness of migration birds and their flyways, the migratory network sites in Myanmar, the benefit […]
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Nan Thar Island and the Mayyu Estuary become Myanmar’s 6th Ramsar site
When in 2006 the second winter search Expedition of the SBS Task Force found 8 SBS in Teknaf at the southern tip of Bangladesh, we looked across to Myanmar and dreamt of going there to continue our search. Gillian Bunting, the GIS expert in our team, now working for BirdLife International, zoomed in some remote […]
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Myanmar designated Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary as Flyway Network Site in celebration of the World Wetlands Day
On 2nd February, 2020, the government of the Republic of the Union Myanmar announced the designation of Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary as EAAFP Flyway Network Site (EAAF 147) in celebration of the World Wetlands Day. This marks the 6th EAAFP Flyway Networks Site for Myanmar. “On this World Wetlands Day, Ministry of Natural Resources and […]
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Community Conservation Area proposed for conserving Baer’s Pochard in Myanmar
The Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri) has a small population which is suspected to be undergoing a continuing and rapid decline as a result of illegal bird hunting and wetland destruction in the wintering ground of Myanmar (Aung.T.D et al., 2019). There are reports of bird hunting by using poison bait at Paleik Inn, Sint Kaing […]
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Coastal Wetlands in Myanmar: A directory of important sites
Coastal wetlands in Myanmar provide a huge wealth of biodiversity, ranging from Dugongs and Dolphins to migratory waterbirds and marine turtle nesting and feeding sites. They have been underrepresented in conserving biodiversity and wildlife in Myanmar, but recently received much more attention. In 2017 Myanmar added two more Ramsar sites from a range of coastal […]
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World Migratory Bird Day Event 2019 – Myanmar
Event title: World Migratory Bird Day Event 2019 in Myanmar Organizer: Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) Participants: About 130 participants from local communities including school students and teachers, Local Conservation Group, government officers Outcome: The participants gained knowledge about the plastic pollution that impact on not only migratory bird species and their habitats, but […]
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Community based conservation of Baer’s Pochard in Myanmar
Baer’s Pochard © Solo Mdy Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri) has declined drastically in recent decades. In the 1990s Thailand and Bangladesh had hundreds of wintering birds, but in recent years the number has dropped to only a few birds wintering annually. Myanmar is another country with a good wintering population of Baer’s Pochard in the […]
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