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Appraisal of the international policy framework for the conservation of migratory shorebirds in the East Asia-Australasian Flyway (EAAF)
Posted on August 1, 2014Continue readingA report by Ed Gallo-Cajiao, EAAFP intern. After some months in Australia’s southeast from January through April, six weeks in the Republic of Korea from May, and two weeks in China in late June, here is a bit of a story about what I have been up to as part of my internship project on […]
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World Wetlands Day (WWD) Festival in South Korea
Posted on July 31, 2014Continue reading“13th WWD Festival” took place on July 10-11 at Convensia, Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. The festival was supported by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF). In recognition of the important relationship between wellbeing and wetlands, the theme for WWD 2014 was “Wellbeing with Wetlands.” Nearly 1000 participants attended the festival, including members of government […]
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WWF recommends to put off the Pivotal Project of Poyang Lake Water Conservancy
Posted on July 30, 2014Continue readingPosted on: July 25, 2014 Report by WWF China WWF recently was informed that the Pivotal Project of Poyang Lake Water Conservancy (hereinafter referred to as the pivotal project) has been submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission and is about to enter the stage of approval. WWF has been highly concerned about […]
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Singapore students visited Seocheon, Republic of Korea, as part of Flyway Sister Sites and Sister Wetland Affiliations Programme
Posted on July 30, 2014Continue readingMr. Mohamad Azlin, National Parks Board, Singapore As part of the Sister Wetland Affiliations Programme and Flyway Sister Sites activity, linking Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR) and Geum River Estuary of Seocheon County, a group of 22 students and three teachers from River Valley High School embarked on a one-week exchange programme to the Republic […]
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Trip to encourage Myanmar to join EAAFP
Posted on July 30, 2014Continue readingOn June 14, Spike Millington, Chief Executive, and Minseon Kim, Program Officer, headed to Myanmar to support and follow up Myanmar’s application to join EAAFP and its nomination of Flyway Network Sites. Meetings were held with Director Win Naing Thaw and Mr. Pyi Soe Aung of the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division of the Ministry […]
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Singapore Intertidal Zone Conservation Symposium
Posted on July 30, 2014Continue readingA two-day Symposium on Intertidal Conservation in Southeast Asia was held at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR) in Singapore on 12-13 June 2014, co-hosted by BirdLife International, the National Parks Board, the National University of Singapore’s Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL/NUS), and the Nature Society of Singapore. The Symposium aimed to raise awareness […]
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A step forward for threatened migratory waterbirds in Incheon, Korea
Posted on July 28, 2014Continue readingIncheon and Gyeonggi tidal flats are important for a great number of migratory bird species, which are now at risk through rapid urban development and reclamation of coastal areas. The EAAFP secretariat has been calling meetings to take proactive measure to halt the unsustainable development in this area with key stakeholders including central and […]
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Yongjeong Island, July 12
Posted on July 21, 2014Continue readingPosted on: July 13, 2014 Author: Tim Edelsten Report by Birds Korea Bird News from Tim Edelsten At a construction site for the planned new runway, an opportunistic Saunders’s Gull colony has been active recently (via SKS). A parent was photographed feeding a well-grown chick here on July 2nd (OSH). Today little activity remained, […]
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Imprinting, memory of Black-faced Spoonbills
Posted on July 21, 2014Continue readingThe Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) co-produced documentary with China and Japan, for the first time on the Black-faced Spoonbill’s breeding ecology, flyways, and the human efforts to protect the species which had been under the veil for a long time. Nowadays remaining natural wildlife habitat areas are getting fewer yearly. Moreover, the loss of the […]
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MOU between BirdLife and Seocheon County Signed
Posted on July 18, 2014Continue readingAuthor: Becky Rush Report by BirdLife International Rio Tinto, through the Rio Tinto – BirdLife International Partnership Programme, is providing funding until end 2015 for a pilot project on migratory bird conservation within the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) to help achieve their commitment to Net Positive Impact on biodiversity, and to help safeguard seven […]