• EAAFP Member since: 2006
• Number of EAAFP Flyway Network Sites: 25
• Focal point contact
  • Dr. Mark Carey
    

    Assistant Director of Biodiversity Conservation Division, Protected Species and Communities Branch, Migratory Species Section, Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government

    Email: [email protected]

    Tel: +61 2 6274 1873

Australia became a Partner in 2006 (MoP1). It now has 25 Flyway Network Sites, the most recent designation being 2017, January. Millions of migratory waterbirds visit each year to escape the northern hemisphere winter. They include Key Species of the EAAFP such as the Black-tailed Godwit, Great Knot and Far-Eastern Curlew.

• Governmental Documents/ Websites:
  • The Queensland Government: Management of shorebirds and other waterbirds
  • Northern Australia Environmental Research Portal
  • National Environmental Science Programme
  • MIGRATORY SHOREBIRDS OF THE EAST ASIAN – AUSTRALASIAN FLYWAY: Population Estimates and Internationally Important Sites (2008, by M. Bamford, D. Watkins, W. Bancroft, G. Tischler and J. Wahl)
  • EPBC Act Policy Statement 3.21– Industry guidelines for avoiding, assessing and mitigating impacts on EPBC Act listed migratory shorebird species (Australian Government)
  • Celebrating Australia’s Migratory Waterbirds and their habitats (link to a document, 2017, by Australian Government)
  • Australian National Report to the 19th JAMBA, 13th CAMBA and 6th ROKAMBA Consultative Meetings, November 2018
  • Wildelife Conservation Plan for Seabirds (2022, by Department of Agriculture, Water, and Environment)
• Reports/Articles
  • Newsletter of the Queensland Wader Study Group (QWSG), Issue 126 (Dec. 2023–Feb. 2024)
  • Review of long-term shorebird monitoring in north Western Australia(2020, by Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research)
  • Revision of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Population Estimates for 37 listed Migratory Shorebird Species (link to a news article, May 2017, by Australian Government)
  • Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds (link to a news article, January 2016, by Australian Government)
  • Australia lists Bar-tailed Godwit and Great Knot as critically endangered (link to a news article, May 2016, by Australian Government)
  • Australia lists Far Eastern Curlew and Curlew Sandpiper as critically endangered (link to a news article, May 2015, by Australian Government)
  • Australia designates six new sites, and extends another (2006, by Ramsar Convention on Wetlands)
  • Wetlands Australia: a twice yearly publication by the Department of the Environment, Australian Government, which brings together information and resources from across the country relating to wetlands conservation, management and education.
• Promotional Materials/Websites
  • Australian National Migratory Shorebird Habitat Directory (2021)
  • Discovering wetlands in Australia
  • New migratory shorebirds plan to help protect some of Australia’s favourite overseas visitors (link to a press release, April 2016, by Australian Government)
  • World Wetlands Day Video (2018) Flyer (2019)
  • Wetland Factsheets