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Australia’s Threatened Species Strategy, plus $6.6 million funding
Dr. Mark Carey, Department of the Environment, Government of Australia The Australian Government Minister for the Environment launched the Threatened Species Strategy and announced $6.6 million dollars for threatened species projects. Australia is a country rich in unique plants and animals. They are core to our identity, culturally significant to Indigenous peoples, important to the […]
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Australia lists Far Eastern Curlew and Curlew Sandpiper as critically endangered
Dr Mark Carey Department of the Environment, Australian Government The Australian Government’s Minister for the Environment has decided to list the following migratory shorebirds as critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act): Numenius madagascariensis (Far Eastern curlew) Calidris ferruginea (Curlew sandpiper) These species will remain listed ‘migratory’ and ‘marine’ […]
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8th Australasian Ornithological Conference in Adelaide, Australia
BirdLife Australia, in collaboration with the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, is committed to holding the 8th Australasian Ornithological Conference that provide a regular forum for the exchange of information and ideas between avian-based researchers and conservationists throughout the Australasian region. Students wishing to attend can apply for a Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award to cover […]
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Celebrating Australia’s wetlands: A showcase of Australian Ramsar sites
Source by : Australian Government (Department of the Environment) Australia was one of the first signatories to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, known as the Ramsar Convention. As evidence of its leadership and commitment to the Convention, Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory was designated as the world’s first Ramsar wetland in 1974. […]
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Deadlines for the 9th Australian Shorebird Conference 2014
31 May 2014 Abstract submission deadline The conference, to be hosted by the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Northern Territory, is accepting abstract submissions until 31st of May and early registration by 1st July. For more information on the conference follow the link:?here
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Australia Designates Eighty-Mile Beach and Roebuck Bay as FSN sites
Eighty-Mile Beach and Roebuck Bay are among the most important non-breeding and migratory stop-over areas for the hundreds of thousands of migratory shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The sites are home to more than 300 species of birds including 50 species of shorebirds. For some species of migratory shorebird, the highest concentrations have been […]
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Australia government celebrated World Migratory Bird Day by hosting a special presentation
On 15th of May, the Australian Government celebrated World Migratory Bird Day by hosting a special lunchtime presentation in Canberra from Dr. Richard Fuller of the University of Queensland. Dr. Fuller presented results from research (partly funded by the Australian Government through an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant) that confirmed rapid declines in Australia’s migratory […]
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New Secretariat arrangements and call for Chair nominations: The Chairman of the East Asian-Australasian Partnership, on behalf of the Partners, accepted a generous offer by the Republic of Korea to take over the hosting of the Partnership Secretariat from the interim Secretariat in Australia
In order to effect a smooth transition of the Secretariat from Australia to the Republic of Korea a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to be developed by the Partnership Management Committee and endorsed by all Partners by about mid March 2009. This is to enable the Republic of Korea sufficient time to appoint an Executive […]
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EAAFP at CMS COP14: Nature Knows No Borders
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) has stood steadfast as a pivotal intergovernmental partner to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) since our inception. United in purpose, we have advocated for initiatives such as the promotion of World Migratory Bird Day and the formulation of Species Action Plans tailored […]
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Literature list (Jul–Dec 2023)
1) Biology & Ecology XU, Z., DONG, B., WEI, Z., LU, Z., LIU, X. and XU, H. 2023. Study on habitat suitability change and habitat network of rare wintering cranes in important international wetlands. -Ecological Indicators, 154: 110692. LEU, M., ISDELL, R. E., GALVIN III, R. M., RAPP, A. J., MASON, S. D., BILKOVIC, D. […]
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