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Inaugural Meeting of the Alliance of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow and Bohai Sea
Group Photo ©Eco Foundation Global On 25th January, 2019, the Alliance of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow and Bohai Sea inaugural meeting and the first general assembly meeting was successfully held in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Meeting Photo ©Eco Foundation Global Natural protected areas management department of Chinese National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA), the […]
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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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China
People’s Republic of China EAAFP Member since: 2008 Number of EAAFP Flyway Network Sites: 20 Focal Point Contact: Mr. SU Rui Deputy Director, Division of Fauna Conservation and Management Department of Wildlife Conservation National Forestry and Grassland Administration Email: surui8423@sina.com China has been a Partner since 2008. It now has 20 Flyway Network Sites, the most […]
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Sister Sites
The Flyway Site Network not only identifies and includes sites of international importance for migratory waterbirds to promote improved protection and management, but also aims to link those sites through sharing information and capacity building. The EAAFP Sister Site Program brings together Flyway Network sites in different countries that share species to encourage increased awareness […]
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Waterbird Census in Sumatran Tiger Hot Spot
Hizbullah Arief (Communication and Reporting Specialist at Sumatran Tiger Project) Yus Rusila Noor (Head of Programme, Wetlands International Indonesia) What do Sumatran tigers have to do with Asian Waterbird Census (AWC)? The answer to this question laid bare from the experience we had from 16-17 January 2018 in small village named Sungai Cemara in Tanjung […]
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Black-faced Spoonbill
Black-faced Spoonbill in breeding plumage Photo © Ki-sup Lee, Korea Waterbird Network Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor has a very small population. However, its population trend is stable and perhaps increasing. In the early 1990s only a few hundred individuals were known, but by the late 2000s the known population had increased to over 2,000. The January 2016 […]
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Third Shanghai International Nature Conservation Festival
EAAFP Secretariat Spike attended the Celebrity Forum of the Third Shanghai International Nature Conservation Festival on the weekend of the 21-22nd October. On Saturday he gave a presentation on why we need to work together to save migratory waterbirds before an audience of local citizens, with a specific focus on Shanghai, including the need to […]
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A Conservation Success in Minjiang River Estuary
Co-operation by WWF and The People’s Government of Changle City, Fujian Province, China 7 July 2017 Fion Cheung, WWF-Hong Kong WWF-Hong Kong has been co-operating with The People’s Government of Changle City in Fujian Province and Fujian Minjiang River Estuary Wetland National Nature Reserve (the Reserve), in a successful 5-year project to develop the management […]
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Experience World Class Yellow Sea Migration And Support The Local Conservation Effort
Birding Beijing Are you free in mid-April, want to experience the world-class migration along the Yellow Sea coast AND support the local conservation effort? If so, keep reading… A local NGO called Spoon-billed Sandpiper in China (SBSC) is organising a special eleven-day tour for birders to showcase the spectacular migration of the Yellow Sea, connecting […]
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