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National Geographic Foundation for Science and Exploration – Asia: grant pre-application open
The National Geographic Foundation for Science and Exploration – Asia, which has recently established its office for Asia in Seoul, Republic of Korea has a grant program for scientists and conservationists. EAAFP encourages collaborating researchers and conservationists to apply. There are many compelling stories about migratory waterbirds and their habitats in our Flyway! See http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/grants-programs/gef/asia/. […]
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Plan to Save the Far Eastern Curlew
By David Lawrie on Pukorokoro Miranda News When a Far Eastern Curlew visited Pukorokoro last summer it was a rare event because it’s numbers are declining rapidly. Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust (PMNT) ’s international representative David Lawrie reports on a plan to save the world’s largest shorebird. Sightings of the Far Eastern Curlew at Pukorokoro Miranda […]
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EAAFP Participates in the Geum River Migratory Bird Festival
Read in Korean Eunjin Yu, EAAFP intern From November 6th to 8th 2015, members of EAAFP Secretariat participated in the Geum River Migratory Bird Festival in Seocheon, Republic of Korea. The festival took place in the Bird Village, near the Geum River Estuary. Many government officials including the mayors of Seocheon and Gunsan city and Deputy Director joined the […]
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Monitoring improves conservation action – October 2015 Newsletter!
As November advances, we see the arrival of many migratory waterbirds in their non-breeding quarters. Here in the Republic of Korea, thousands of Bean and Greater White-fronted Geese are thronging the harvested rice fields. Shorebirds are settling into their favoured spots in the southern part of the Flyway, such as Australia and New Zealand. Several […]
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AI Situation Update: Asia (July to October 2015)
Since the 1st of July 2015, there have been 133 confirmed avian influenza outbreaks in Asia. Between the 1st of July and 21st of October, the following subtypes of avian influenza outbreaks were observed in Asia: H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N2 HPAI H5N6 HPAI H5N8 HPAI H7N9 low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) Countries were affected […]
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Bird watching with SangIncheon Middle School students in Cheonsu Bay, Seosan, RoK
Joohee Lee, EAAFP Intern On 24 October 2015, Tomoko Ichikawa (EAAFP Communication Officer) along with Joohee Lee (Intern) and Eugene Cheah (Photographer) participated in a birdwatching trip to Seosan Birdland, Republic of Korea organised for SangIncheon Middle School students. This trip was led by Sunjeong Nam school teacher, a member of Incheon-Gyenggi Task Force and the leader of the Black-faced […]
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Haesong high school students visit G-Tower
Read in other languages: Joohee Lee, EAAFP Intern 14 October 2015, 50 of Haesong High School students visited G-Tower in Songdo, Incheon, Republic of Korea. This was part of a program to encourage their global view by learning about Incheon and the international organizations hosted here. Tomoko Ichikawa, Communication Officer, was invited to give a lecture on EAAFP’s […]
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China’s land reclamation is endangering some of the world’s rarest waterbirds
By Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP In late April, the Bar-tailed Godwits, medium-sized wading birds that have spent the northern winter along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, start to get restless. In the evenings, flocks spiral up into the gathering dusk, testing the winds, and if these are favourable they take off […]
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Scaly-sided Merganser Task Force workshop on the Single Species International Action Plan in Vladivostok, Russia
by Judit Szabo, Science Officer of EAAFP Secretariat The Scaly-sided Merganser is a beautiful and rare duck breeding in the Russian Far East, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and China and wintering mostly in China and in the Republic of Korea. To halt declines, the Scaly-sided Merganser Task Force was established in 2010 and has been very […]
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A Flyway and Ramsar Site Manager Workshop will be held in Mongolia
Information and Experience Sharing and Training Workshop for Wetland Managers in Mongolia Agenda Dates: 5-9 October 2015 Venue: Hunnu Hotel – Hunnu Group, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Host: Ministry of Environment, Green Development, and Tourism, Mongolia, Ramsar Convention, and Gyeongnam Province, Republic of Korea Organizers: Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia, Ministry of Environment, Green Development, and […]
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