Foster care rare birds return home to breed
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) News Spoonievision – first footage and behind-the-scenes interviews Rare Spoon-billed Sandpipers that were fostered by conservationists have returned home to breed in numbers for the first time. Five birds that were taken into captivity as eggs a year ago, and raised by WWT’s expert bird keepers till they fledged, have […]
Continue readingConserving Seabirds in the Philippines’ Last Great Rookery
By Gregg Yan, WWF Philippines / Wildlife Extra ‘Never look up with your mouth open,’ by Gregg Yan The combined stench of rotting fish and guano was incredible. Soaked and shivering, we shelter beneath a dripping grove of Argusia trees on Tubbataha’s South Islet and count birds. Chilly raindrops are the least of our concerns – more […]
Continue readingBrave efforts pay off in doubly-successful project to restore colonies of Chinese Crested Tern
Read in Japanese Written By Shaun Hurrell (BirdLife International) The Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini is one of the rarest birds in the world. Only rediscovered 15 years ago, after its assumed extinction for six decades, this Critically Endangered seabird has a very small population size and only three breeding sites are known. But the BirdLife International […]
Continue readingCollaborative Work Programme for Shorebird Conservation in the EAAF
Written by Bena Smith, WWF Hong Kong With support from both the Yellow Sea Ecoregion Taskforce and the Shorebird Working Group of the East Asian–Australian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), WWF-Hong Kong releases a Collaborative Work Programme for the conservation of East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) shorebirds, with a focus on the Yellow Sea Ecoregion. The Programme […]
Continue readingGlobal trends show seabird populations dropped 70 per cent since 1950s
– Comment from Dr. Judit Szabo, EAAFP Science Officer – For only about one in five species of seabirds do we have reliable information of what’s going on. For these monitored species, total numbers have declined by nearly 70% in the last 60 years. The largest declines were observed in families with wide-ranging pelagic (open-sea) […]
Continue readingTomoko gives two lectures at Green Climate Frontier camp of SUNY, Korea
by Sumin Kim, EAAFP intern EAAFP Communication Officer Tomoko Ichikawa gave two lectures about migratory waterbirds and global warming to Korean students aged 9 to 10 who participated in the Green Climate Frontier summer camp in the last week of July. The camp was a three-day environmental education program organised by The State University of New […]
Continue reading백령도 밑 소청도에 국가철새연구센터 만드는 까닭은
김기범 기자, 경향신문 서해5도 중 소청도에 국가철새연구센터가 건립된다. 환경부는 한국 철새연구 업무를 총괄할 ‘국가철새연구센터’를 2017년 완공 목표로 인천 옹진군 소청도에 건립한다고 30일 밝혔다. 환경부는 소청도에 국가철새연구센터가 새로 들어서면 철새의 이동경로 등 철새 연구를 보다 종합적으로 수행하는 것이 가능해지고, 조류독감(AI) 등 질병 대응과 국제협력에도 도움이 될 것으로 기대하고 있다. 환경부는 전남 신안군 흑산도의 국립공원관리공단 철새연구센터가 국립공원 […]
Continue readingInternational Symposium for HPAI and Wild Bird Conservation was held in ROK
by EAAFP Secretariat The international Symposium for HPAI and Wild Bird Conservation (23-24 July 2015) was held at the National Institute of Ecology in Seocheon, Republic of Korea. It was hosted by the Ministry of Environment, and organised by National Institute of Ecology. International experts gathered to give presentations about HPAI in their countries and […]
Continue reading해외전문가, `고병원성 AI 막자고 철새도래지 소독`은 헛수고
윤상준 기자/수의사, 데일리벳 철새도래지 소독이나 폐쇄조치는 고병원성 AI 대처에 별 도움이 되지 않는다는 지적이다. 7월 23일과 24일 양일간 국립생태원에서 열린 ‘야생조류의 HPAI 국제심포지엄’에 방한한 해외전문가들은 철새가 AI 바이러스를 옮길 수 있다는 사실을 인정하면서도 철새나 철새도래지에 직접적인 방역조치를 하는 것에는 부정적인 견해를 나타냈다. 지난해 1월 국내에서 최초로 H5N8형 고병원성 AI가 발생하면서 AI바이러스 국내 유입 및 전파의 […]
Continue readingSpike returned from three weeks in Chukotka, Russia
by Spike Millington Chief Executive of the EAAFP Secretariat I have just returned from three weeks in Chukotka at the kind invitation of EAAFP Focal Point for Russia and Chair of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (SBS) Task Force, Evgeny Syroechkovskiy. Unfortunately one week of that time involved waiting for the weather to improve to be able […]
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