Spike Millington, the Chief Executive presenting general introduction of the EAAFP at the British Birdwatching Fair in UK © Carina Stover
As Global Sponsor of BirdLife International’s Flyways Programme, the British Birdwatching Fair is this year raising funds to support conservation in the East Asian – Australasian Flyway. The Fair has a long history of funding global conservation projects. Since the first Birdfair in 1989, Rutland Water’s annual August event has raised more than £2.5 million for a variety of bird conservation projects around the globe. With some 11 per cent of the world’s migratory birds classified on the IUCN Red List as Globally Threatened or Near Threatened, in 2011 the Birdfair chose to support BirdLife International’s Flyway
Two artists painting the Arctic breeding grounds © Carina Stover
Programme for its next three years, with 2012 dedicated to Asia. The future project aims to take conservation action at intertidal wetlands that are critical for migrating waders, to improve the availability of data on the bird populations that use the flyway, and to raise awareness throughout the region of the threats to migratory birds and the value of coastal wetlands to people.
