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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force: News Bulletin No.14, August 2015
Posted on August 19, 2015Continue readingThe 14th Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) News Bulletin is downloadable 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 Spike Millington Boat Race for Conservation – Sonadia, Bangladesh Once was a BirdHunter Myanmar […]
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Brave efforts pay off in doubly-successful project to restore colonies of Chinese Crested Tern
Posted on August 18, 2015Continue readingRead in Japanese Written By Shaun Hurrell (BirdLife International) The Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini is one of the rarest birds in the world. Only rediscovered 15 years ago, after its assumed extinction for six decades, this Critically Endangered seabird has a very small population size and only three breeding sites are known. But the BirdLife International […]
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Collaborative Work Programme for Shorebird Conservation in the EAAF
Posted on August 17, 2015Continue readingWritten by Bena Smith, WWF Hong Kong With support from both the Yellow Sea Ecoregion Taskforce and the Shorebird Working Group of the East Asian–Australian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), WWF-Hong Kong releases a Collaborative Work Programme for the conservation of East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) shorebirds, with a focus on the Yellow Sea Ecoregion. The Programme […]
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Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update August 2015
Posted on August 13, 2015Continue readingWetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update August 2015 (Issue No. 27) was issued by the Department of the Environment, Australian Government. This edition highlights the actions by community groups, Indigenous organisations, universities and research institutions, non-government organisations and state and federal governments to raise awareness, restore and manage wetlands for the benefit of threatened birds, mammals, fish […]
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Global trends show seabird populations dropped 70 per cent since 1950s
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue reading– Comment from Dr. Judit Szabo, EAAFP Science Officer – For only about one in five species of seabirds do we have reliable information of what’s going on. For these monitored species, total numbers have declined by nearly 70% in the last 60 years. The largest declines were observed in families with wide-ranging pelagic (open-sea) […]
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Relevant Scientific Articles updated in July 2015
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue readingIf you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. Avian Influenza and Other Diseases Read, A. F., S. J. Baigent, C. Powers, L. B. Kgosana, L. Blackwell, L. P. Smith, D. A. Kennedy, S. W. Walkden-Brown, and V. K. Nair. 2015. Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens. PLoS […]
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Tomoko gives two lectures at Green Climate Frontier camp of SUNY, Korea
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue readingby Sumin Kim, EAAFP intern EAAFP Communication Officer Tomoko Ichikawa gave two lectures about migratory waterbirds and global warming to Korean students aged 9 to 10 who participated in the Green Climate Frontier summer camp in the last week of July. The camp was a three-day environmental education program organised by The State University of New […]
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백령도 밑 소청도에 국가철새연구센터 만드는 까닭은
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue reading김기범 기자, 경향신문 서해5도 중 소청도에 국가철새연구센터가 건립된다. 환경부는 한국 철새연구 업무를 총괄할 ‘국가철새연구센터’를 2017년 완공 목표로 인천 옹진군 소청도에 건립한다고 30일 밝혔다. 환경부는 소청도에 국가철새연구센터가 새로 들어서면 철새의 이동경로 등 철새 연구를 보다 종합적으로 수행하는 것이 가능해지고, 조류독감(AI) 등 질병 대응과 국제협력에도 도움이 될 것으로 기대하고 있다. 환경부는 전남 신안군 흑산도의 국립공원관리공단 철새연구센터가 국립공원 […]
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International Symposium for HPAI and Wild Bird Conservation was held in ROK
Posted on July 31, 2015Continue readingby EAAFP Secretariat The international Symposium for HPAI and Wild Bird Conservation (23-24 July 2015) was held at the National Institute of Ecology in Seocheon, Republic of Korea. It was hosted by the Ministry of Environment, and organised by National Institute of Ecology. International experts gathered to give presentations about HPAI in their countries and […]
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해외전문가, `고병원성 AI 막자고 철새도래지 소독`은 헛수고
Posted on July 31, 2015Continue reading윤상준 기자/수의사, 데일리벳 철새도래지 소독이나 폐쇄조치는 고병원성 AI 대처에 별 도움이 되지 않는다는 지적이다. 7월 23일과 24일 양일간 국립생태원에서 열린 ‘야생조류의 HPAI 국제심포지엄’에 방한한 해외전문가들은 철새가 AI 바이러스를 옮길 수 있다는 사실을 인정하면서도 철새나 철새도래지에 직접적인 방역조치를 하는 것에는 부정적인 견해를 나타냈다. 지난해 1월 국내에서 최초로 H5N8형 고병원성 AI가 발생하면서 AI바이러스 국내 유입 및 전파의 […]
