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Celebrating Australia’s wetlands: A showcase of Australian Ramsar sites
Posted on October 17, 2014Continue readingSource 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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Migratory shorebirds could face extinction within a decade
Posted on October 17, 2014Continue readingSource by: Wildlife Extra Migrating shorebirds that travel to Australia from Siberia are under serious threat from development, which is destroying the vital feeding grounds they rely on during the epic journey. Director of Deakin University’s Centre for Integrative Ecology Professor Marcel Klaassen, along with other researchers, is examining the migratory behaviour of shorebirds […]
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Migrating birds acting as “early warning system” for habitat loss
Posted on October 15, 2014Continue readingSource by United Nations Radio The changing habits of birds migrating through Asia is acting as an” early warning system” for the loss of coastal habitats, according to a network of organisations which protects migratory routes. The East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership says that if birds need to change those routes it shows the eco-systems […]
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Scaly-sided Merganser Nest Box Programme
Posted on October 14, 2014Continue readingSource by Dr. Diana V Solovyeva (Task Force Coordinator) [Video] This video is about an artificial nest programme for the endangered Scaly-sided Merganser, which has advantages and disadvantages. See more information about Scaly-sided Merganser
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Myanmar Conservation Group Protects Endangered Bird Species
Posted on October 2, 2014Continue readingAuthor: Logan Linnane As the level of human and infrastructural development in Myanmar continually climbs, the status of the republic’s wildlife looks bleak more than ever. The Spoon-Billed Sandpiper is one of the world’s most Critically Endangered birds, with a population falling below 500 members. While the drop in population couldn’t be any more […]
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News from the 9th Australasian Shorebird Conference
Posted on September 30, 2014Continue readingFollowing the Management Committee meeting of the Australian Wader Study Group on September 19, the Australian Australasian Shorebird Conference kicked off with the attendance of over 60 shorebird researchers mostly from Australian and New Zealand with some invited guests from China, South Korea and Thailand. Dr. Judit Szabo, EAAFP Science Officer gave a plenary talk […]
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H3 STILL GOING STRONG
Posted on September 30, 2014Continue readingArticle by Global Flyway Network In February 2008 Global Flyway Network, US Geological Survey, Point Reyes Bird Observatory California and AWSG implanted 14 Bar-tailed Godwits with satellite transmitters as a complimentary study to the work by from the US Geological Survey, Point Reyes Bird Observatory California, Massey University, NZ and Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust. […]
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First ‘grand-chick for conservationist
Posted on September 29, 2014Continue readingAll the text and photos by The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) This little fellow is the first ever spoon-billed sandpiper chick to be hatched in the wild by a hand-reared bird. Spoon-billed sandpipers are critically endangered and the news confirms to conservationists that the birds they hand-rear go on to breed naturally once […]
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Update from the SBS survey team in Rudong, China
Posted on September 29, 2014Continue readingAuthor: Nigel Clark (SBS Task Force from China) A Team lead by SBS in China and with five international wader experts; Nigel Clark from BTO, James Phillips from Natural England, Guy Anderson and Andy Schofield from RSPB and Rich Hearn from WWT, has come together to survey the autumn concentration of SBS on the […]
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Vietnamese Flyway and Ramsar Site Manager Workshop on 21-24 October 2014
Posted on September 29, 2014Continue readingTogether with Ramsar Regional Center – East Asia, EAAFP organised a national site manager training workshop on 21-24 October, hosted by Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, Vietnam. Participants were around 60 site managers, including different stakeholders and they were from the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, […]
