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The 7th Rason International Trade Exhibition
1 September 2017 Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea The 7th Rason International Trade Exhibition – Promoting environment conservation in the Rason Economic and Trade Zone. For the 7th time, the Rason International Trade exhibition took place in Rason, DPR Korea. Domestic and international exhibitors, mostly from China, presented their goods and services to local visitors. Hanns […]
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National Workshop held in Pyongyang, DPR Korea
17 June 2017 Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea Conservation and Management of Intertidal Wetlands and Migratory Waterbirds of the West Sea of Korea – National Workshop held in Pyongyang, DPR Korea on 12 June 2017, a workshop on the conservation and management of intertidal wetlands and migratory waterbirds of the West Sea of Korea was held […]
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New Zealand National Partnership Meeting
Bruce McKinley, New Zealand Government At the recent New Zealand Bird Conference representatives from Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists Trust (PMNT) and the Department of Conservation (DOC) took the opportunity to hold a National Flyway Partnership meeting held on 3 June 2017. David Lawrie from PMNT and Bruce McKinlay from DOC took the lead and promoted an open relaxed side […]
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China Adds Several Critical Migratory Waterbird Sites to the World Heritage Tentative List
Read in other languages: PRESS RELEASE: China adds critical migratory waterbird sites in the Bohai Gulf and Yellow Sea to the World Heritage Tentative List East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Fourteen sites along the coast of the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea of China have recently been added to the tentative list of sites to be […]
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The International EAAFP SBS Task Force met in Mawlamyine, Myanmar for their 11th meeting, 12-22 January 2017
January 2017 Pyae Phyo Aung, Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association, and Christoph Zöckler, Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Coordinator About every two years the Task Force (TF) members come together somewhere along the flyway to exchange information on their activities and discuss urgent conservation issues. The concept of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (SBS) TF for the biennial […]
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Three Questions With: Spike Millington
Read in Chinese: The Paulson Institute There is much doom and gloom about China’s wetlands and the future of the migratory birds they sustain. More than 60% of those wetlands have disappeared since 1950. Do you see any positive developments? Are you actually hopeful? Yes, there have been positive developments, not least the declaration last […]
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PTT 36 likes to be photographed
A note by Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat, on the report from Global Flyway Network I know we are not supposed to ascribe human characteristics to animals, but I have a special feeling for Great Knots (maybe it’s the short legs and pot belly) and this amazing story from the Global Flyway Network of a […]
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HSF at the Workshop for World Heritage Nomination – The Wadden Sea and Korean Tidal Flats
Read in Korean: 20 October 2016 Felix Glenk, Hanns Seidel Foundation There are 1,052 World Heritage Sites in the world – natural or cultural sites of outstanding universal values, which are designated by the UNESCO. On the Korean Peninsula, there are a total of 14 designated World Heritage Sites – 12 in the Republic of […]
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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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Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea becomes 35th member of EAAFP
Felix J. GLENK Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea On April 14th, 2016, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea became the 35th member of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP). “We are proud to be partners of the flyway partnership together with 15 national governments along the flyway, major international nature protection associations and NGO in the field of nature […]
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