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Satellite tags to track critically-endangered Sandpipers
3 October 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The smallest satellite tag ever made is set to play a vital role in the battle to conserve the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus). The species, classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List, numbered fewer than 100 pairs in 2010. Now a conservation programme, set up in […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force: News Bulletin No.16, October 2016
The 16th Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) News Bulletin is now available here. The contents are as below. To read previous news bulletins and find out more about Spoon-billed Sandpiper, please visit our SBS TF page. Foreword from the Editor Guest Editorial by Amirkhan Amirkhanov Russia-China Bilateral Agreement on nature conservation Breeding bird survey in “Okeanskoe”, Chukotka, […]
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2017 Conservation Leadership Programme Team Awards: Call for Applications
Applications for the 2017 Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Conservation Team Awards are now open! CLP aims to advance biodiversity conservation globally by building the leadership capabilities of early-career conservation professionals working in high-priority places with limited capacity to address conservation issues. CLP is a partnership of three of the world’s leading biodiversity conservation organisations, BirdLife International, […]
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Spike attends the 10th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference
Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat A workshop on the Conservation and Wise Use of Wetlands in North-east Asia, with a focus on the coastal wetlands of the Yellow Sea/West Sea, was held on September 21, 2016 during the 10th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference in Changsu, China. The meeting brought together representatives of the Governments […]
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HSF attends 6th Rason International Trade Exhibition in DPRK
EAAFP Partner Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea (HSF Korea) attended the 6th Rason International Trade Exhibition in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), 8-11 August 2016. The DPRK has many important habitats for migratory waterbirds such as Scaly-sided Merganser, Swan Goose and Black-faced Spoonbill. The EAAFP Secretariat worked together with HSF Korea in developing CEPA materials for the […]
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National workshop on the conservation and management of the migratory shorebirds and coastal wetlands of the Republic of Korea
Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat Following the adoption of the Resolutions 28 and 51 on the conservation of the Yellow Sea, its migratory waterbirds and habitats at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju in September 2012, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea and IUCN held a national workshop at Incheon on 26-27 […]
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Critically Endangered Chinese Crested Terns appear on a deserted island in South Korea
Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat The Critically Endangered Chinese Crested Tern, thought to number only a hundred individuals nested in 2016 on a small, uninhabited island off the southern coast of the Republic of Korea. This is the first breeding record outside of coastal China and marks a significant range expansion for the species […]
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The ICF Bugle August 2016
The new issue of The ICF Bugle, quarterly newsletter of the the International Crane Foundation (ICF) is published. Click here to read it in PDF file. This issue includes an article on Siberian Cranes below: Millennia (p.6-7) “The greatest threats to Siberian Cranes are destruction or degradation of their wetland habitats at staging places in northeast China […]
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The Yellow Sea: The Highest Conservation Priority In East Asia
31 July 2016 Birding Beijing In the fun company of Paul Holt and Marie Louise, I have just made my 15th visit to Nanpu, a small town situated on the coast of the Bohai Bay in Hebei Province, China. At this time of year the outskirts of this unassuming settlement play host to one of nature’s […]
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News from the field: And they’re off!
27 July 2016 By Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Yesterday, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper headstarting programme successfully released 30 fledglings. That’s the most in a single year and means we’ve now released over 100 Spoon-billed Sandpipers (111 to be exact)! Roland has let us know that the release went to plan with all 30 fledgling […]
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