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In loving memory of Dr. Lew Young
©EAAFP Secretariat The memorial service to honor Dr. Lew Young, the Chief Executive of EAAFP Secretariat, was organized on Tuesday 19th March 2019 in Songdo G-Tower, Incheon, Republic of Korea at 14:00. The funeral service for Lew was conducted in Beijing on the 11th March followed by the first memorial service in Hong Kong on […]
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From Birthday to Bird day! – Celebrating Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve’s 25th Anniversary, World Migratory Bird Day, and the addition of Mandai Mangrove and Mudflats in 2018
In conjunction with Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve’s 25th Anniversary, the Reserve kicked off its year-long celebrations on World Wetlands Day, culminating with Welcome Waders! From 7 to 13 October 2018 to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day. Throughout the year, there were various monthly activities to engage with the community on a specially created web-page. To […]
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Celebrating World Wetlands Day 2019 at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve!
Wetlands support a diverse range of wildlife and are important habitats that provide water, food and shelter for the animals. They also serve as crucial stopover sites for migratory waterbirds. To celebrate our wetlands and raise awareness of the many benefits they offer, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve lined up a myriad of activities over two […]
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Results of the 2018 Knots Painting Competition: EAAFP’s activity for “Year of the Knots”
To call for attention and urgent actions to save knots, EAAFP had marked 2017 and 2018 as “Year of the Knots”. One of the campaign activities was the organization of Knots Painting Competition. The painting competitions happened both in 2017 and 2018. The 2018 Knots Painting Competition was open to participating from 31 Aug 2018 […]
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Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative (AMBI) holds meeting, determines path forward for 2019-2023
Over 85 participants from 20 countries and over 60 organizations flocked to the Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative (AMBI) East Asian-Australasian Flyway Implementation Workshop in Hainan, P.R. China December 5-8, 2018 ahead of the EAAFP 10th Meeting of the Parties. The Arctic Council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), in partnership with the Department of […]
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Result of 2018 Knots Painting Competition
Numbers of Knots Drawing/Painting Competition 2017 – 2018 Residences of the Participants 127 paintings are from 7 countries: 6 paintings are from Thailand, 35 are from RO Korea, 2 is from Australia, 4 are from Indonesia, 75 are from Japan, 3 are from Hong Kong, 2 are from Singapore. 65 paintings are in Category A […]
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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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Promoting regional cooperation to conserve short-distance migratory waterbirds in Southeast Asia
At the 10th Meeting of the Partners to the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP MoP10) in Hainan, China, thirty-seven Partners of the EAAFP agreed to collaborate and promote the importance of the conservation of short-distance migratory waterbirds and their habitats in the Southeast Asian region. Mr How Choon Beng (NParks, Singapore) said, “Besides […]
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MoP 10
Period: 10-14 December 2018 Venue: Changjiang City, Hainan Island, P.R. China Note: pre-meeting day on 9 December for Working Groups and Task Forces to meet if they so wish. Contact: secretariat@eaaflyway.net Final Discussion Papers You can find the compilation of MoP10 final discussion papers from [here] and final decision papers from [here]. You can also find these […]
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Workshop on the Design and Future Management of the Proposed Songdo Wetland Centre
Over the past decades, some 45km2 of tidal-flat habitat around Incheon Metropolitan City have been reclaimed for the expansion of the city. In order to compensate for the loss of the tidal-flat associated with building the new Songdo district, the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZ) has initiated a waterbird habitat restoration project including the […]
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