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Rongcheng, Safe Haven for Swans
Thousands of swans winter in the coastal wetlands of Shandong each year, and every effort is exercised to make sure these migratory birds have a comfortable refuge. Han Bingbin visits the swan lakes. Some of China’s rare lagoons lie along the relatively unpolluted coastline from Weihai to Rongcheng in Shandong province. Thousands of whooper swans […]
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Wintering Grounds of Red-crowned Crane in Kangryong, Mundok and Anbyon, DPR Korea
Kangryong District borders the West (Yellow) Sea on an extension of DPR Korea that protrudes west beyond the northwest corner of RO Korea. These western waters separating the neighboring nations are part of the DMZ. At high tide, the ocean meets the base of hills and dikes. At low tide wide expanses of mudflats are […]
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Students in tourism business visit Mai Po Nature Reserve – Hong Kong
To mark the Year of Wetland and Tourism for Ramsar, over 60 students from the Institute for Tourism Studies of Macau joined a guided visit to Mai Po Nature Reserve (MPNR) to learn about sustainable tourism practices in early November 2012. This visit for students was to experience first-hand how a sustainably-managed wetland can accommodate […]
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GFN Bohai Report 2012 from Global Flyway Network
The Global Flyway Network (GFN) is a partnership between researchers worldwide that is devoted to long term, usually demographic, work on long distance migrating shorebirds. The aim of the GFN is to build on the strengths of comparative demographic shorebird studies worldwide to better understand and analyse the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly […]
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EAAFP Side Event and Participation at CBD COP11, Hyderabad, India
The Secretariat of the EAAFP participated in the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11) held in Hyderabad, India, from the 8th to the 19th of October 2012, to raise awareness of the importance of critical habitats for migratory waterbirds along the flyway and the role […]
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EAAFP Meeting and Side Events at Ramsar COP11 to raise awareness of EAAFP activities
The EAAFP meeting was held to introduce the EAAFP activities to Ramsar delegates from the EAAF regions, and to identify enhanced opportunities for cooperation with Ramsar. Eighty participants attended the meeting. It was chaired by Srey Sunleang of Cambodia, EAAFP Chair, with opening remarks given by Yeon-chul Yoo of RO Korea, Chairman of the Standing […]
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Flyway Project of Rio Tinto – BirdLife International – Wetlands International to conserve intertidal habitats, valued in billions or even trillions of dollars
Rio Tinto recently joined the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) and established a project in collaboration with BirdLife International and Wetlands International, both EAAFP Partners in 2011. The project planning meetings were held in Thailand and South Korea in February 2012 to consider how to make the most effective use of the new […]
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Australia government celebrated World Migratory Bird Day by hosting a special presentation
On 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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EAAFP welcomes Spike Millington as new Chief Executive
Spike Millington took up the post of Chief Executive Officer of EAAFP Secretariat as of 16th May 2012. Spike has a lifelong interest in birds and their conservation, dating back to his childhood in England. He spent the last year in Washington helping USAID develop its global biodiversity strategy. For the previous ten years he […]
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Gulf of Martaban in Myanmar hosts the largest remaining population of wintering Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Conservationists from ArcCona, BTO, RSPB and WWT from the UK joined the BirdLife partner in Myanmar, BANCA for a training workshop and survey of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the Gulf of Martaban (Mottama). The field survey as well as a training course was accompanied by members of the SBS Task Force from Japan, Bangladesh and China, […]
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