• EAAFP Welcomes New Finance Officer

    Posted on September 8, 2017

    The EAAFP Secretariat is happy to introduce our new Administration and Finance Officer, Ms. Yejin Jung from the Republic of Korea. Ms. Jung has been engaged in environmental conservation since receiving both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Environmental Science and Environmental Chemistry at the Catholic University of Korea, respectively. She has more than fifteen […]

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  • Birdwatching in Songdo

    Posted on September 8, 2017

    7 September 2017 Viktoriya Kang, EAAFP Intern On 28 August 2017, a group of EAAFP staff members and Ms. Sunjeong Nam from the Incheon Black-faced Spoonbill Network with her assistants and two Japanese researchers organized birdwatching and Knot drawing activities in Songdo. Around forty children at elementary and middle school levels participated in the outdoor program […]

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  • First Meeting of YSLME Habitat WG in Songdo, Incheon

    Posted on September 7, 2017

    Spike Millington, Chief Executive The Phase II UNDP/GEF Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME) got up and running earlier this year, based in the same building as EAAFP in Songdo, Incheon. The project aims to promote adaptive ecosystem-based management in the Yellow Sea. A regional Working Group (WG) on Habitats has been set up to […]

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  • EAAFP at CMS COP12

    Posted on September 7, 2017

    Spike Millington, Chief Executive The theme of 2017’s World Migratory Bird Day was “Their Future is Our Future”, highlighting the interconnectedness of nature, people and birds. It was a popular theme and was selected to link with the theme of the Twelfth Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on Migratory Species, an EAAFP Partner. […]

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  • The 7th Rason International Trade Exhibition

    Posted on September 1, 2017

    1 September 2017 Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea The 7th Rason International Trade Exhibition – Promoting environment conservation in the Rason Economic and Trade Zone. For the 7th time, the Rason International Trade exhibition took place in Rason, DPR Korea. Domestic and international exhibitors, mostly from China, presented their goods and services to local visitors. Hanns […]

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  • 2017 Biodiversity Forum in Incheon

    Posted on September 1, 2017

    Dong-koo Yun, Deputy Cheif Executive of EAAFP Secretariat   The 2017 Biodiversity Forum in Incheon was held in Incheon, 24th of August, and hosted by the Incheon Metropolitan City and co-hosted by the Local Sustainability Alliance of INCHEON, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (lCLEI) Korea Office. The theme of the forum was ‘Cities […]

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  • Cannon Netting Report (27 August 2017)

    Posted on August 30, 2017

    27 August 2017 Chris Hassell, Global Flyway Network (GFN) Well this was going to be about the 2 W’s (nowhere near as good as the 3 W’s. Only for cricket tragics that one). Whistling Kites and wind. However that has changed and I think most of this report will only be to interest of people […]

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  • Workshop Promotes Wetland Management for the China Crane Flyways

    Posted on August 29, 2017

    Jim Harris, Senior Vice President of the International Crane Foundation Along the greatest of the world’s crane flyways, six species of cranes cross the semi-arid landscapes of northeast China where rainfall is variable and unreliable. The cranes follow a tension zone — water-hungry croplands to the east give way to grasslands and desert to the west, […]

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  • Minseon’s farewell

    Posted on August 28, 2017

    28 August 2017 Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP Ms. Minseon Kim has been the heartbeat of the EAAFP Secretariat, the reassuring presence since her arrival in 2009 when the Secretariat set up in Songdo, Incheon. She has always been a diligent worker, but what I have noticed since my arrival in 2012 is a […]

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  • Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit Y5RBRL

    Posted on August 28, 2017

    23 August 2017 Global Flyway Ecology – Team Piersma Ginny (Ying Chi) Chan, Theunis Piersma and Chris Hassell from Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Global Flyway Network Australia, report: This is a story about the ten thousand kilometer journey of a Bar-tailed Godwit, travelling between the tropics […]

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