Building Nanpu Wetland Nature Reserve for a Healthier Ecosystem
Read in Chinese: 15 June 2017 Paulson Institute Today, the Paulson Institute, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Hebei Provincial Forestry Department and Hebei Luannan County Government signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation among the four parties, aiming to protect Nanpu coastal wetland, one of the most important habitats for migratory waterbirds […]
Continue readingNews from the Field: The first eggs of 2017
16 June 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The team has collected the first eggs of the season, many more flagged birds have been seen and flooding continues to cause problems. Here’s the latest from Russia. We collected the first clutch of eggs this week – four eggs were collected from the nest of […]
Continue readingNews from the Field: First update from the team
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), 16 June 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper We’re very pleased to be able to share the first news from the field with you. Roland and the BirdsRussia team have been at the breeding grounds for almost a month now but have had a more limited internet connection than usual. […]
Continue readingNew Zealand National Partnership Meeting
Bruce McKinley, New Zealand Government At the recent New Zealand Bird Conference representatives from Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists Trust (PMNT) and the Department of Conservation (DOC) took the opportunity to hold a National Flyway Partnership meeting held on 3 June 2017. David Lawrie from PMNT and Bruce McKinlay from DOC took the lead and promoted an open relaxed side […]
Continue readingToondah plan still bad news for birds
BirdLife Australia 5 June 2017 Walker Group withdraws development proposal for Toondah Harbour and submits a new plan that is still disastrous for threatened migratory shorebirds. The proposed Toondah development is part of an internationally significant wetland and the Moreton Bay Key Biodiversity Area (KBA). A recent report by BirdLife Australia lists Moreton Bay [EAAF013] as […]
Continue readingSeoul Mates
BirdLife Australia 5 June 2017 In late May, representatives from BirdLife Australia and BirdLife International hosted Indigenous Yawuru and Murujuga Rangers from Broome and Karratha, academics from Deakin University and representatives of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway Partnership and Woodside Energy in a visit to South Korea. While they were there they witnessed first-hand conservation work […]
Continue readingWorld Migratory Bird Day 2017 – National celebration and site managers’ workshop in Seocheon, Republic of Korea
Minjae Baek, Intern, EAAFP Secretariat The national celebration of International Day for Biological Diversity, World Wetland Day and World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2017 was held jointly at the National Institute of Ecology (NIE) in Seocheon, the Republic of Korea (RoK), from the 20th to the 24th of May. Over 700 participants from both national and […]
Continue readingA WMBD 2017 local event by the EAAFP Secretariat (20 April 2017 – 29 May 2017)
Ga-on Lee, Senior intern, EAAFP Secretariat After several months of preparation, our World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) event is nearing the end. I was fully involved in the preparation to promote the event through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, and also lead the local event in the G-Tower in Incheon, the Republic of Korea. I would […]
Continue readingAll hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent
26 May 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper It’s that time of year again! The monitoring and headstarting team have arrived at the breeding grounds in Meinypil’gyno, Russia to await the return of the Spoon-billed Sandpipers, and at WWT Slimbridge, we’ve moved birds to breeding aviaries and the singing and nest scraping has begun. […]
Continue readingA conference on developing effective coordinated monitoring of East Asian Waterbirds in the 21st century was held in China
Yi Kunpeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences The International Conference on developing effective coordinated monitoring of East Asian Waterbirds in the 21st century was held on 6th-10th April 2017, in Hulun Lake National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia, China. More than 40 academics from 8 countries and regions, including China, Russia, Mongolia, Australia, Japan, the Republic of […]
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