Task forces are established to address issues raised during the Meetings of Partners.
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Task forces Monitoring of waterbird populations and sites Task Force
In order to plan and implement conservation activities for waterbirds across the Flyway, current assessments of the condition of habitat are needed. At their recent 4th Meeting, the Partners established a task force...
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Task forces Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force
In 2004 several partners active in the conservation of the globally threatened Spoon-billed Sandpiper joined the Recovery Team chaired by Evgeny Syroechkovskiy and later by Christoph Zöckler...
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Task forces Scaly-sided Merganser Task Force
The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus has a very small population which is suspected to be undergoing a continuing and rapid decline as a result of illegal hunting, logging and drowning...
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Task forces Yellow Sea Ecoregion Task Force
Bruce McKinlay has worked in wildlife management and conservation for the New Zealand Government since the 1980’s. Based in Dunedin, Southern NZ, his work has focused on penguin, invertebrate, lizard, forest bird...
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Task forces Amur-Heilong Basin Task Force
Map of the Amur River Basin.
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Task forces Baer’s Pochard Task Force
The Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri is a Critically Endangered species. It has undergone a decline that has accelerated rapidly in recent years and has pushed this duck to the edge of extinction. We need to act urgently...
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Task forces Far Eastern Curlew Task Force
The Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis is endemic to the East Asian – Australasian Flyway, is the largest migratory shorebird species in the world and is listed Endangered under IUCN criteria (IUCN, 2015)...
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Task forces Task Force on Illegal Hunting, Taking and Trade of Migratory Waterbirds
Introduction Hunting is a substantial threat to migratory waterbirds in the EAAF and has been linked to the decline of many threatened species in the Flyway. In many parts of this diverse region, hunting is considered as illegal because species targeted are protected under national or sub-national legislation. The Task
