Shorebirds are still being hunted, often legally
<Introduction to this article by Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP> This article addresses the vulnerability of shorebirds to different hunting pressures across their migratory range in the Americas, both legal and illegal. Illegal hunting is the theme of the 2016 World Migratory Bird Day, but legal hunting can also have an impact of shorebird […]
Continue readingDOC and China’s conservation agency agree to protect migratory birds
Press Release Fonterra and the Department of Conservation, New Zealand The Department of Conservation (DOC) and the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of China have agreed to work together to protect wetlands visited by Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits during their 12,000km migratory flights. DOC Director-General Lou Sanson and Vice-Minister Chen Fengxue, the Chinese Minister responsible […]
Continue reading‘천연기념물 201호’의 수난, 다음은 인간이다
영어로 읽기 크게 위협받는 큰고니 생태, 겨울철 도래 현황 ‘반토막’ 이경호, 오마이뉴스 겨울이 시작된지도 벌써 한참이 흘렀다. 2월 중순이면 겨울철새들은 하나둘 북상을 시작한다. 올해 우리나라를 찾아오는 겨울철새들은 월동지에서 자리를 잡아 생활하고 있는 시기를 맞았다. 각자 겨울을 보내고 수천 km를 이동하는 여행을 시작하기 위해서 월동지의 생활이 매우 중요하다. 적정하게 먹고, 에너지를 비축하지 못하면 수천 km의 이동이 […]
Continue readingHardship for Natural Monument 201, human’s next
Read in Korean The survival of Whooper Swans is under threat, as wintering number have halved. By Kyeongho Lee of ohmynews It’s been a while since winter started. In mid-February, migratory birds that spend the winter in Korea start to return to the north. The conditions at the wintering site are very important for the birds […]
Continue readingEAAFP welcomes new Focal Point of Wildlife Conservation Society
The EAAFP Secretariat welcomes new Focal Point of Wildlife Conservation Society, Martin Robards. Below is the short biography of him. Dr. Martin Robards is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Arctic Beringia Program – a transboundary effort working across Chukotka (Russian Federation), Alaska (United States), and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Canada). He is an […]
Continue readingSand mining threat to Siberian Cranes at Poyang Lake, China
By Jim Harris Senior Vice President International Crane Foundation Growing evidence points to intensive sand dredging as having a significant impact on water levels and flows for Poyang Lake [EAAF025], the most important wintering area for waterbirds in East Asia. On average 400,000 waterbirds spend the winter at Poyang, including 98% of the world’s critically […]
Continue readingThe 1st Asian Argos birds tracking workshop was held in Tokyo, Japan
Yann Bernard Head, Environmental Monitoring Collecte Localisation Satellites(CLS) With 60 attendees, the 1st Asian Argos birds tracking workshop hosted by Keio University and organized by CLS Argos in Japan was a great success! Held in Tokyo on the last March 9, 2016 this workshop was aimed to make information exchange between biological and technical scientists […]
Continue reading2,700 Hooded Cranes arrived in Republic of Korea
Kisup Lee, Waterbirds Network Korea Hooded Cranes are on the move! About 2,700 Hooded Cranes arrived in Republic of Korea from Japan on 20 – 21 March. We are expecting more Hooded Cranes coming from Izumi, Japan. According to monitoring results on 20 March, Cheonsu Bay [EAAF046] in Seosan currently supports around 2,900 Hooded Cranes […]
Continue readingMigration routes of Tundra Swans satellite-tracked from northern Japan
Wenbo CHEN, Tomoko DOKO, Go FUJITA, Kan KONISHI, and Hiroyoshi HIGUCHI Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus) breed in tundra regions near the North Pole, wintering in temperate regions of the coastal areas of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The Eastern Palearctic (EP) flyway goes between southwest coast of Japan and the Arctic Ocean at the northeast […]
Continue readingThe odyssey of the Bewick Swan – another route to Greece – Belgian Ringing Scheme
Back to the north! Didier Vangeluwe Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences The first two Bewick’s Swans equipped with a GPS tag during past summer in the tundra of Yamal but at the same site a few days apart, have very recently left their wintering site separated one of the other by … 8000 km! […]
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