A place to roost
Posted on November 3, 2016Continue readingGraham Appleton, WaderTales This article by @GrahamFAppleton is blog number 27 in his WaderTales series. You can read a summary of all of Graham’s shorebird/wader blogs here. Safe roost sites are important for waders such as Black-tailed Godwits It has been said that Black-tailed Godwits are the laziest birds in the world, usually in a frustrated […]
Promoting Wetland Conservation in Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea
Posted on November 3, 2016Continue readingRead in Chinese: The Paulson Institute Yesterday, the Beidaihe Coastal Wetlands and Waterfowl Seminar 2016 opened in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, China, bringing together officials from Chinese government agencies, representatives from some provinces and municipalities around Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, as well as experts from local and international research institutions and NGOs. The Symposium was jointly organized […]
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Posted on November 1, 2016Continue readingSaving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is the centre piece of a new environmental documentary series, ‘Between Clouds and Dreams’, to be broadcast across China and subsequently around the world on both terrestrial television, including on Channel 4 in the UK, and via China’s satellite television service. This stunning new documentary […]
The world’s smallest satellite tag helps one of the world’s rarest species!
Posted on November 1, 2016Continue reading28 October 2016 Nigel Clark, Guy Anderson and Baz Hughes, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Very exciting news from the international research efforts helping the Spoon-billed Sandpiper – one of the world’s most endangered birds. We now have three wild adult ‘spoonies’ fitted with satellite tags – brand new tiny tags that are the smallest of […]
Indonesian wetland managers gather to share best practices and build a national partnership
Posted on October 28, 2016Continue readingMinseon Kim, EAAFP Programme Officer An Indonesian National Training Workshop for Flyway and Ramsar site managers was held in Jakarta on 19-23 September 2016, kindly organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) of Indonesia and Wetlands International Indonesia. It was co-funded by the Ramsar Regional Centre for East Asia (RRC-EA) and the East […]
Latest Yellow Sea-Bohai Sea region survey of waterbirds highlights continued importance of this global bottle neck area
Posted on October 28, 2016Continue readingTaej Mundkur, Wetlands International The Yellow Sea-Bohai wetlands is well known as one the most important staging areas for millions of migratory waterbirds in the world and are used by waterbirds for feeding and resting during the both northward and southward migration along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. It is well known that waterbirds breeding in […]
Baer’s Pochard in inland lakes of central Myanmar
Posted on October 27, 2016Continue readingBiodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) Baer’s Pochard, Athya baeri is globally threatened species listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN Red List 2015. It was last recorded in Indawgyi Lake [EAAF118], Inlay Lake, Kyee ni Inn, Nyaung Yan Min Hla Lake, Myitthar Lake and Taung Kan Sedaw gyi lake in 2003. No extensive survey has been […]
Swinhoe’s Rail in Beijing
Posted on October 26, 2016Continue readingBirding Beijing Whilst I was in Dalian participating in the 2nd China International Birding Festival (more on that to come), I received an excited WeChat message from Zhao Qi informing me that Colm Moore had, just a few minutes earlier, seen a Swinhoe’s Rail at Shahe Reservoir, Beijing. Due to its secretive habits, this poorly-known […]
Spoon-billed Sandpiper population revealed
Posted on October 26, 2016Continue reading19 October 2016 Olivia Bailey, Fauna & Flora International Scientists have estimated the world population of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper – a Critically Endangered shorebird – for the first time. For the first time, scientists have calculated the world population of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, after overcoming a number of difficult challenges including limited knowledge about the […]
Satellite tags to track critically-endangered Sandpipers
Posted on October 21, 2016Continue reading3 October 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The smallest satellite tag ever made is set to play a vital role in the battle to conserve the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus). The species, classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List, numbered fewer than 100 pairs in 2010. Now a conservation programme, set up in […]
