2020 Annual report of Chukh Bird Research Station in Mongolia
The Chukh Bird Research Station’s second monitoring year was successfully completed and “Annual report – 2020” in English is now available. In 2020 monitoring year, the research team had observed a total of 6512 individuals of 40 species and ringed 268 individuals of 26 species of shorebirds in Chukh Lake, Eastern Mongolia. According to the […]
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Special Edition of Notornis: Waders in New Zealand
Notornis the Scientific journal of Birds New Zealand has recently published a special edition on the Waders of New Zealand. A number of papers related to species which migrate through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. This current publication complements and updates the special wader issue of Notonis published in 1999. The papers that report on current […]
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The Philippines filed “National Wetlands Conservation Act’ on 2021 World Wetlands Day
As a Contracting Party of the Ramsar Convention, the Philippines has committed to conserve and promote the wise use of wetlands. On the occasion of 2021 World Wetland Day (WWD), Senator Cynthia A. Villa, the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, announced a new National Wetlands Conservation Act to foster wetland […]
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2021 World Wetlands Day: Restore our wetlands in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
World Wetlands Day, celebrated every year on 2 February, to raise global awareness of the importance of wetlands to the planet, and to commemorate the date of adoption of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 1971 in the city of Ramsar in Iran. This year, the theme of World Wetlands Day is “Wetlands and water”, […]
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Chair of EAAFP, Mr. Pete Probasco to step down
Mr. Pete Probasco, Representative of the U.S.A. Government and Chair of EAAFP, has stepped down after seven years of engagement with the EAAFP. Pete was first directly introduced to the EAAFP when the US Fisheries and Wildlife Service hosted EAAFP MoP 7 in Anchorage, Alaska in June 2013. For the past seven years, Mr. Probasco […]
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Five Black-faced Spoonbill released in Ganghwa Island, by National Institute of Ecology of Ro Korea
National Institute of Ecology (hereafter referred to as the “NIE”) under the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea, released five Black-faced Spoonbills (IUCN: Endangered, National Species: Level I) to the natal site, tidal flat of Ganghwa-do, Incheon on 1 July, 2020. Black-faced Spoonbill was listed as an Endangered (EN) species in IUCN Red List and […]
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“Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series #7: Interview with Ms. Green Choi, a bird researcher and illustrator at MEET GREEN
“A bird researcher and Illustrator of MEET GREEN”, this is how we describe Ms. Green Choi. We have met this wonderful bird lover to get to know more about what she has done for raising awareness of birds and how she contributes to the conservation of migratory waterbirds as a bird researcher and an illustrator […]
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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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