Declining Long-distance Shorebirds linked to Yellow Sea Mudflat Loss
Continue readingRead in other languages: EAAFP Secretariat Birdwatchers have been watching, counting and monitoring shorebirds along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand for many years, resulting, at some sites, in decades-long datasets. Now, these amateur “citizen scientists” have teamed up with researchers to use this long-term information to identify trends in individual species’ populations […]
Saving a migratory icon: Recovering the Far Eastern Curlew
Continue readingMicha Jackson, Magazine of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub The Far Eastern Curlew is a species of migratory shorebird, with a migration that can truly be described as spectacular. Every year they travel from their non-breeding grounds in the southern hemisphere to breed in boreal marshlands of the northern hemisphere. But, as Micha Jackson from […]
China Adds Several Critical Migratory Waterbird Sites to the World Heritage Tentative List
Continue readingRead in other languages: PRESS RELEASE: China adds critical migratory waterbird sites in the Bohai Gulf and Yellow Sea to the World Heritage Tentative List East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Fourteen sites along the coast of the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea of China have recently been added to the tentative list of sites to be […]
새만금 물막이 10년, 조류 86% 사라져…생태재앙 수준
Continue reading2017.02.21 문주현 기자 새만금 물막이 10년 평가 토론회, “새만금에서 사리진 새들, 세계에서 자취 감춰” “새만금에서 14년이라는 비교적 긴 시간 모니터링을 하고 보니 새만금이 어떻게 파괴되고 사람들의 삶이 어떻게 피폐해졌는지 알 수 있었다.” 새만금 물막이와 방조제·방수제, 갯벌 준설 등으로 새만금 일대를 찾는 멸종위기종이 포함된 조류들의 개체수가 급감했다는 조사 결과가 나왔다. 전북지역 시민사회단체들과 전북도의회가 […]
서해안 찾은 저어새, 가마우지 등쌀에 번식지 잃을라
Continue reading2017. 03. 13 윤순영, 한국야생조류보호협회 서해안이 유일한 번식지인 세계적 멸종위기종, 번식지 부족 심각 온순한 성격 탓 김포 유도 번식지 민물가마우지에 빼앗겨, 대책 시급 순백색 몸 깃털에 밥주걱을 닮은 큰 부리, 부리가 얼굴까지 폭넓게 연결 되어 마치 검은 가면을 쓴 것 같은 모습…. 저어새다. 3월 중순이면 동남아 월동지에서 우리나라에 번식하러 오는 귀한 새이다. 1988~1990년 […]
“Farewell to Godwit” Events in New Zealand
Continue readingDavid Lawrie, P?korokoro Miranda Naturalists Trust A number of events are held in New Zealand during late February or early March to celebrate the journey of Bar-tailed Godwits and Red Knots as they leave on migration to their breeding grounds in the Arctic by way of stopover points around the Yellow Sea. The first was […]
Transboundary collaboration to save Far Eastern Curlew
Continue readingMark Carey (Chair) and Connie Warren (Coordinator) Far Eastern Curlew Task Force The Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis is one of the largest shorebirds in the world. Its very large size (900 g) and very long bill (19cm) distinguishes it from other similar species in Australia and the East Asian–Australasian Flyway (Flyway). It is endemic to […]
The Convention on Biological Diversity welcomes new Executive Secretary
Continue readingPRESS RELEASE: Cristiana Paşca Palmer assumes position as Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity 20 March 2017 Convention on Biological Diversity Cristiana Paşca Palmer today assumed office as the new Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the principal global treaty on biodiversity. Adopted by governments in 1992 in Rio de […]
MOP interactive sessions lead to lively discussions (and drawings)
Continue readingSpike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat One of the challenges of designing a large meeting involving a diverse set of stakeholders with different backgrounds and interests, as well as expectations, is to come up with a format that effectively engages these different groups. At EAAFP’s Eighth Meeting of Partners (MOP8) in Hokkaido, Japan in January […]
