EAAFP Chief Executive, Dr. Lew Young passes away
The EAAFP Secretariat is deeply sad to announce that the Chief Executive of EAAFP, Dr. Lew Young passed away on 5th March 2019 in Beijing due to a sudden heart attack. He is 60 years old. Lew joined the EAAFP Secretariat as Chief Executive in March 2018. This is a tragic loss for the […]
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AWSG North-west Australia Satellite Tracking Project Updates
This is the fifth year the AWSG’s North-west Australia Waders and Terns Expedition team has fitted satellite transmitters on migratory waders. Five 5g transmitters were fitted on Little Curlew with the hope for more success to compare to the previous studies in 2013 and 2015; and five 2g transmitters were, for the first time in […]
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Promoting integrated conservation of natural and artificial shorebird habitat in the EAAF
A new publication is available about the use of artificial wetlands (such as aquaculture ponds) by shorebirds in southern Jiangsu province, China – a critical stopover region in the EAAF. This study found that thousands of shorebirds, including the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper, are dependent on both natural intertidal wetlands and artificial supratidal wetlands in […]
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From Birthday to Bird day! – Celebrating Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve’s 25th Anniversary, World Migratory Bird Day, and the addition of Mandai Mangrove and Mudflats in 2018
In conjunction with Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve’s 25th Anniversary, the Reserve kicked off its year-long celebrations on World Wetlands Day, culminating with Welcome Waders! From 7 to 13 October 2018 to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day. Throughout the year, there were various monthly activities to engage with the community on a specially created web-page. To […]
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Using Art to promote conservation – Fishpond Diving Art Festival in Hong Kong
Art Festival in the Field The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society (HKBWS) and a local NGO Art Together worked on maintaining the balance of ecology and searching for possibilities of sustainable living, the former through ecological conservation, the latter through community arts. Since 2012, HKBWS has been conducting the Fishpond Conservation Scheme in northwestern New […]
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Celebrating World Wetlands Day 2019 at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve!
Wetlands support a diverse range of wildlife and are important habitats that provide water, food and shelter for the animals. They also serve as crucial stopover sites for migratory waterbirds. To celebrate our wetlands and raise awareness of the many benefits they offer, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve lined up a myriad of activities over two […]
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World Migratory Bird Day 2019 – Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution!
Albatross: © NOAA CREP With an annual production of more than 300m tonnes, plastic is one of the most widely used materials in the world. What often escapes one’s attention is that the plastic is used for its main purpose for only a moment compared with its life-cycle of 20 to 500 years. Lightweight and […]
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Community based conservation of Baer’s Pochard in Myanmar
Baer’s Pochard © Solo Mdy Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri) has declined drastically in recent decades. In the 1990s Thailand and Bangladesh had hundreds of wintering birds, but in recent years the number has dropped to only a few birds wintering annually. Myanmar is another country with a good wintering population of Baer’s Pochard in the […]
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Inaugural Meeting of the Alliance of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow and Bohai Sea
Group Photo ©Eco Foundation Global On 25th January, 2019, the Alliance of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow and Bohai Sea inaugural meeting and the first general assembly meeting was successfully held in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Meeting Photo ©Eco Foundation Global Natural protected areas management department of Chinese National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA), the […]
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EAAFP received donation from Korea South-East Power Co., Ltd. (KOEN)
EAAFP Secretariat is excited to announce that we received a generous donation from the Korea South-East Power Co., Ltd. (KOEN) Yeongheung Power Division with 10,000,000 KRW (approximately 8,900 USD). On Friday February 1st 2019, Mr. Chang-sup Moon, the Senior Manager of Environmental Technology department and Mr. Sun-hyeon Jeong, the Senior Manager of Green Environment Team […]
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