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Seventh MoP
Participants of 7th Meeting of Partners, Anchorage, Alaska © 2013 EAAF Partnership Participants on a field trip in Seward © 2013 EAAF Partnership. The Seventh Meeting of the Partners of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) was held in Anchorage and Seward, Alaska, USA on 10-14th June 2013, hosted by EAAFP Partner, U.S. […]
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Workshop Promotes Wetland Management for the China Crane Flyways
Jim Harris, Senior Vice President of the International Crane Foundation Along the greatest of the world’s crane flyways, six species of cranes cross the semi-arid landscapes of northeast China where rainfall is variable and unreliable. The cranes follow a tension zone — water-hungry croplands to the east give way to grasslands and desert to the west, […]
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Red Knots Are Battling Climate Change—On Both Ends of the Earth
The tiny, threatened bird is an omen for how devastating ocean acidification can be. By Deborah Cramer for Audubon magazine May – June 2016 The vast, unbroken beach at Bahía Lomas stretches for about 30 miles along the Strait of Magellan in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern end of South America. I’ve stood for […]
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The Convention on Biological Diversity welcomes new Executive Secretary
PRESS RELEASE: Cristiana Paşca Palmer assumes position as Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity 20 March 2017 Convention on Biological Diversity Cristiana Paşca Palmer today assumed office as the new Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the principal global treaty on biodiversity. Adopted by governments in 1992 in Rio de […]
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Qupałuk Flyway Network Site [EAAF133] – East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership
Casey Burns, State Wildlife Biologist, Bureau of Land Management–Alaska 7 February 2017 Following two years of data compilation and outreach, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – Alaska, with support from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), nominated an East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Flyway Network Site in Nov 2016. Named Qupałuk EAAFP Flyway Network Site, […]
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Conserving Coastal Wetlands to Address Climate Change
22 June 2016 The Paulson Institute The China Coastal Wetland Conservation Network’s second annual meeting, a training workshop on climate change and coastal wetlands, took place on June 22 in Shenzhen. The event was jointly organized by the Paulson Institute, the Wetland Conservation Management Center of the State Forestry Administration of China, and the Forestry […]
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On China’s Coast, Rare Bird Finds Little Room to Rest
Shi Yi, Sixth Tone It was the kind of news experts only believe if they see it with their own eyes: A man in China claimed he had spotted 100 Spoon-billed Sandpipers foraging on the muddy coast of the Yellow Sea. The bird is so small that it would barely cover the hand of a grown […]
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Spike Millington attends the Implementation Meeting of the Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI) at Texel, Netherlands
Spike Millington attended the Implementation Meeting of the Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI) at Texel, Netherlands on April 4-7th, organized by East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Partners Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF). Evgeny Syroechkovskiy, EAAFP Focal Point for Russia and Rick Lanctot, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) represented Arctic countries in our Flyway […]
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Shorebirds are still being hunted, often legally
<Introduction to this article by Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP> This article addresses the vulnerability of shorebirds to different hunting pressures across their migratory range in the Americas, both legal and illegal. Illegal hunting is the theme of the 2016 World Migratory Bird Day, but legal hunting can also have an impact of shorebird […]
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Building capacity for waterbird ringing in Bangladesh
Richard Hearn Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust We have just returned from working with IUCN Bangladesh and the Bangladesh bird club (Bbc) to develop a programme of duck capture and ringing, and wild bird surveillance for avian influenza, at Tanguar Haor [EAAF105], a vast Ramsar site in northern Bangladesh. The site is of huge global importance […]
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