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Copper River International Migratory Bird Initiative (CRIMBI) and its partners have designed a 10-year project to protect Western Sandpipers
Posted on July 31, 2012Continue readingEach spring, millions of Western Sandpipers depart beaches from as far away as Peru, French Guiana, Mexico, and the Caribbean to migrate to tundra nesting grounds in western Alaska.The Copper River Delta in the Chugach National Forest and the Stikine River Delta in the Tongass National Forest are key refueling stops along this great migratory […]
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Launch of the “GIN report” was held jointly with the publication of the fifth edition of the Waterbird Population Estimates at Ramsar COP11
Posted on July 20, 2012Continue readingWith the generous support of Seosan City, Republic of Korea, the government of Switzerland and the Secretariat of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), an international workshop to review good practice in international initiatives for the conservation of migratory waterbirds and other species was convened by the Ramsar Convention, the Convention on Migratory […]
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EAS Congress 2012 held at Changwon, South Korea on 9-13 July 2012: International Cooperation and Careful Planning of Coastal States are highly demanded
Posted on July 18, 2012Continue readingThe EAS Congress 2012 was led by the Partnership in Environmental Management for the Seas of Eas Asia (PEMSEA), the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) of RO Korea and Changwon City with the support of GEF, UNDP and UNOPS. The meeting was held in Changwon, Republic of Korea on 9-13 July 2012 […]
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New Website for the Entire Team of Spoon-billed Sandpipers
Posted on July 2, 2012Continue readingA new website for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper project has now been opened since last June 2012 and the website is kindly hosted by WWT. The project is supported by WWT, RSPB and Save our Species, with additional financial contributions and support from the EAAFP, BirdLife International, CMS, AWSG-Birds Australia, Heritage Expeditions, the BBC Wildlife Fund, […]
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A Wild Goose Chase through the Literature
Posted on July 2, 2012Continue readingThe Ramsar Convention COP11 is coming up in next month, July, – time for Wetlands International to finish off the latest fifth edition of the Waterbird Population estimates. Brant is a rare winter visitor to the ROK with only one recorded nationwide in the 2011 winter bird census (MoE Korea and NIBR 2011). It therefore […]
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Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve – Singapore invites public visitors to World Migratory Bird Day celebration
Posted on June 7, 2012Continue readingOn 12 May 2012, over 300 visitors passed through the gates of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and viewed the Migratory shorebird species photograph exhibition, learnt from the talks about SBWR and shorebird conservation programme and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP). Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, National Parks Board Singapore, celebrated World Migratory Bird Day with […]
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Australia government celebrated World Migratory Bird Day by hosting a special presentation
Posted on June 7, 2012Continue readingOn 15th of May, the Australian Government celebrated World Migratory Bird Day by hosting a special lunchtime presentation in Canberra from Dr. Richard Fuller of the University of Queensland. Dr. Fuller presented results from research (partly funded by the Australian Government through an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant) that confirmed rapid declines in Australia’s migratory […]
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Mongolia government celebrated World Migratory Bird Day at Khurkh Khuiten Valley
Posted on June 7, 2012Continue readingMinistry of Nature, Environment and Tourism of Mongolia celebrated World Migratory Bird Day by holding two events in Khurkh Khuiten Valley which joined EAA Flyway Network Site in 2003. The Khurkh Khuiten Valley is internationally important crane habitat such as Demoiselle Crane (Grus virgo), Eurasian Crane (Grus grus) and White-naped Crane (Grus vipio). Mongolia government […]
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Mongolia celebrates World Migratory Bird Day 2012 in Ulaanbaatar on 11-13 May 2012
Posted on May 25, 2012Continue readingThe National University of Mongolia and Mongolian Ornithological Society (MOS) organised several small events to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day in collaboration with the Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism of Mongolia and Natural History Museum of Mongolia, EAAFP Secretariat, UNEP/CMS Secretariat and Steppe Forward on 11-13 May 2012. More than 60 participants belonging to […]
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Invitation to Meeting for the EAAFP Partners at Ramsar COP11
Posted on May 21, 2012Continue readingThe EAAFP secretariat is pleased to invite you to the Meeting for the EAAFP Partners at Ramsar COP11 on 5 July 2012. Its time and venue is scheduled to at 17:30 – 19:30 and the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. The agenda of the meeting will be to develop new nominations of Flyway Site […]