EAAFP at CMS COP12: Their Future is Our Future
Continue readingClinton Poletti, Content Manager The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, or more simply, the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), is an international organization put together under the United Nations Environment Programme with the goal of conserving the terrestrial, marine, and avian migratory species throughout their range. As such, CMS and […]
Farewell to Songdo
Continue readingSpike Millington recently finished his service as Chief Executive to Secretariat of EAAFP. The following is a note from him on his six years in the position. It was a cold February evening in 2012 when I first arrived in Incheon and took the bus over the impressive suspension bridge and into Songdo, in preparation […]
Side Event on ‘International Single Species Action Plans for Baer’s Pochard and Far Eastern Curlew’ at COP12
Continue readingConnie Warren At the 12th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP12) in Manila in October, the EAAFP, the Government of Australia, BirdLife International and BirdLife Australia hosted a side event to showcase the International Single Species Action Plans for Baer’s Pochard and Far Eastern Curlew that were up for […]
Third Shanghai International Nature Conservation Festival
Continue readingEAAFP Secretariat Spike attended the Celebrity Forum of the Third Shanghai International Nature Conservation Festival on the weekend of the 21-22nd October. On Saturday he gave a presentation on why we need to work together to save migratory waterbirds before an audience of local citizens, with a specific focus on Shanghai, including the need to […]
Delegates flock to Gangalidda Country to celebrate the Nijinda Durlga (Tarrant) Flyway site [EAAF125]
Continue readingTerrence Taylor, Gangalidda & Garawa Ranger Coordinator On the 18th October 2017 a ceremony was hosted by the Gangalidda People in Burketown to celebrate the opening of the new Flyway Network Site Nijinda Durlga (Tarrant). The ceremony welcomed representatives from the Australian Government’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Queensland Government’s Department of […]
Curlew crisis deepens: vital Australian wetlands under threat
Continue readingThe curlews are one of the most widespread and far-travelling of all the bird families — and also one of the most threatened. It seems that wherever they roam, habitat loss and human encroachment follows. We can’t let the Far Eastern Curlew go the same way as its fellows. 19 October, 2017 Connie Warren, BirdLife […]
11月8日（水）アジア湿地シンポジウム・サイドイベント開催
Continue reading18 October 2017 2017年11月7日から11日まで佐賀市にて、アジア湿地シンポジウムが開催されます。その中で、サイドイベント「Population Decline of Migratory Waterbirds and Habitat Changes–Shorebirds as Indicators」を企画・開催し、干潟の減少や、干潟を生息地とする渡り鳥が直面する問題について、日本の事例を異なる世代・地域間で共有し、今後の干潟保全管理について皆さんと考える機会を提供します。 日時：11月8日（水）ランチタイム（12：00－13：00） 場所：ホテルグランデはがくれ・フラワーホール 主催：EAAFP事務局、ラムサールネットワーク日本、バードライフ・インターナショナル東京 プログラム： Shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (T. Ichikawa, EAAFP Secretariat) Video message: Wetlands in those good old days (N. Hirakata & R. Tokitsu, Ariake Fisheries Cooperative) Decline of shorebirds: 40-Year-Nationwide-Data in Japan (T. Nuka, Wild Bird Society […]
