New Year greeting with Suncheon City to initiate conservation network for Hooded Crane
On 19th of January 2021, Suncheon City hosted a virtual New Year greeting call. EAAFP Secretariat, Ramsar Regional Centre – East Asia (RRC-EA), Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) Korea who participated at “the Suncheon Roundtable Meeting on Building Inter-Korea Cooperation” two months ago, as well as International Crane Foundation (ICF) joined to initiate a conservation network […]
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Artificial Nests Program for the Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser in Russia: brief report of the 2020 results
Article prepared by Diana V Solovyeva and Scaly-sided Merganser Project — Russia Project staff The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is a globally threatened species, classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002. This is justified on the basis that it has a very small population which is suspected to be undergoing a continuing […]
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Studying the breeding ecology of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank and Common Redshank in Schaste Bay, Russian Far East for enacting efficient conservation planning
In 2020, a small research team from Russia studied the breeding ecology of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) and ubiquitous Common Redshank (Tringa totanus ussuriensis) in Schaste Bay, Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East (Fig 1), sponsored by EAAFP Working Group/Task Force Small Grant and the Wildlife Conservation Society. The field season was a success despite […]
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The Launch of Far Eastern Curlew Network of the Korean Peninsula
Hwaseong City in Ro Korea, where the Flyway Network Site Hwaseong Wetlands (EAAF 142) is located, the main habitat of Far Eastern Curlews, carried out the Hwaseong Wetland Project since concluded an agreement with the EAAFP in May, 2020. The City proposed the launch of the “Far Eastern Curlew Network of the Korean Peninsula” based […]
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Shorebird monitoring activities of “Chukh” Bird Research Station, the Eastern Mongolia
Mongolia is located on the inland route for migratory shorebirds between non-breeding grounds in Australia, southern Asia and breeding areas in Asian tundra and there are 60 species of shorebirds have been recorded in the country and most of them migrate along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. However, data of the shorebird populations that use this […]
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Work and achievements of EAAFP Secretariat in collaboration with the Partners in 2020
The year 2020 is an unprecedented time for everyone due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Yet, the EAAFP Partners and Secretariat adapted to the situation and overcome the challenge to continue the conservation of migratory waterbirds and wetlands. Here is a summary of the work and achievements of EAAFP Partners in which the Secretariat has also […]
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Russian rescued Oriental Stork came to RoKorea
An Oriental Stork, Listed as Endangered by IUCN and as Endangered wildlife species class I in the Republic of Korea, which was rescued and released in Russia in 2020, was found in the Southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula. On January 4, 2021, the National Institute of Ecology under the Ministry of Environment Korea announced […]
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The EAAFP Foundation is established in RO Korea
On 21 December, Mr. Pete Probasco, the Chair of EAAFP announced that the EAAFP Foundation is established in Republic of Korea with endorsement of the EAAFP Management Committee and Finance Sub-Committee. In his email to the Partners, he noted that: “Adopted at the 9th EAAFP Meeting of Partners (MOP9) in 2018, the EAAFP Sustainable Financing […]
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Shifting the Paradigm: A Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands (#RightsOfWetlands)
The global climate destabilization and biodiversity loss crises, of which global wetland loss and deterioration is a part, call out for a fundamental paradigm shift in the human-wetlands/human-Nature relationship. This shift is supported by the growing rights of Nature movement that acknowledges Nature/elements of Nature as living beings entitled to rights similar to rights held […]
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Launch of the Coordinated survey in middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River 2020/2021
The extensive wetlands of the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River are critical to the function of the whole Yangtze ecosystem, which in turn provides essential services to the hundreds of millions of people that live within the basin. The middle and lower Yangtze River floodplain is a globally important wintering area for waterbirds […]
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