Youth declared for global stand to conservation of wetland and migratory waterbirds during the Flyway Youth Forum
Continue readingThe first-ever virtual Flyway Youth Forum, organized by The East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) and Youth Engaged in Wetlands (YEW), sponsored by Hanns Seidel Foundation, was successfully taken place over two weekends from 28-29 November and 5-6 December, 2020. A total number of 134 attendees, including 87 selected youth leaders from 26 countries or regions, […]
New book “THE NARROW EDGE”, by Deborah Cramer, telling the story of Red Knots
Continue readingIntroduction of the book The Narrow Edge Each year tiny sandpipers—Red Knots—undertake a near miraculous 19,000 mile journey from one end of the earth to the other and back. In this firsthand account, Deborah Cramer accompanies them on their extraordinary odyssey along the length of two continents, tracking birds from remote Tierra del Fuego to […]
Connecting Wetland Education and Formal Education
Continue readingOn 17th and 18th October 2020, 40 teachers from primary and secondary schools in Yancheng, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Haikou, Beihai City of China, as well as staffs from coastal wetland nature reserves and wetland parks, took part in the “Wetland Education – School Curriculum Training” at the Jiangsu Yancheng Wetland National Nature Reserve. Since 2014, the […]
The southern Jiangsu coast is an important ‘dressing room’ for Spoon-billed Sandpipers and Nordmann’s Greenshanks
Continue readingIf you are lucky to see the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers or Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshanks on the southern Jiangsu coast, they are probably busy gobbling up seafood on the vast tidal flat. In the past decade, people have come to realize that the southern Jiangsu coast of China is an important staging site for the […]
YSFAC-EAAFP Joint Capacity Building Seminar is Successfully Held
Continue readingOn December 11, 2020, the EAAFP Secretariat held its first “YSFAC-EAAFP Joint Capacity Building Seminar” with Yeonsu Foundation for Arts and Culture (YSFAC) at the Incheon Art Plug, Republic of Korea. This event was jointly held to build capacity and share knowledge among YSFAC and EAAFP Secretariat’s staff members. YSFAC is a non-profit public organization […]
Red-crowned Crane Welcoming Party at Donggeom Island. Ganghwa, Incheon ROK
Continue readingOn 12 December, the EAAFP Secretariat participated in the Crane Welcoming Party Organized by the Ecology Education Hub Mulsaeal, a local NGO which is one of the grantees of the EAAFP Foundation’s 2020 Small Grant Fund programme. The Programme is sponsored by Yeongheung Power Division of Korea South-East Power Co., Ltd. (KOEN_Korean_한국남동발전). The objective of […]
Update about Kumya Wetland Reserve (EAAF044) in DPRK
Continue readingTranslation of the Original Source: Kumsugangsan, December 2020 The Kumya Wetland Reserve, located in Geumya-gun of Hamgyeongnam-do has a beautiful landscape filled with the sound of chirping birds. The reserve sits at the estuary of the Geumya-gang river and the Deukj-gang river and is a habitat of more than 200 migratory waterbirds of the East-Asian […]
The “Year of the Cranes” story series #7 – Sarus Crane Nest Adoption in Thailand
Continue readingSarus Crane (Antigone antigone) has three disjunct populations in the Indian subcontinent, South-East Asia (occurs in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia) and northern Australia. Unlike most of other species of cranes which migrate long distance between breeding and wintering grounds, Sarus Crane are residential or regarded as “short-distant migrant”. The Eastern Sarus Crane population decreased drastically due […]
Researchers discover how migratory shorebirds travelling from Southeast Asia cross the Himalayas to breeding grounds in China and Russia
Continue readingSingapore revealed to be at the intersection of the Central Asian Flyway and East Asian-Australasian Flyway These new insights give researchers, policymakers and conservation biologists a more robust understanding of migratory shorebird ecology in Southeast Asia Researchers at the National Parks Board (NParks) have demonstrated, for the first time, how migratory shorebirds cross the Himalayas […]
Annual summary of Alaska Shorebird Group field studies
Continue readingThe Alaska Shorebird Group produces annual summary to document new and ongoing field studies of shorebirds in Alaska. This year marked the beginning of the novel Coronavirus pandemic; therefore, many field projects were either cancelled or postponed, and the annual summary reflects this. The 2020 annual summary includes information for 8 studies and 20 publications from ASG members. These research […]
