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World Migratory Bird Day 2020 – EAAFP Virtual Fun Day
This year, most of us might have to stay at home for the World Migratory Bird Day, still it can be fun. As the theme of World Migratory Bird Day 2020 mentioned “Birds Connect Our World”, and let’s get linked up by migratory waterbirds in East Asian Australasian Flyway! On 9 May, four amazing groups […]
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EAAFP – 2nd Notification To Partners Of MOP 11
Letter from Mr. Pete Probasco, Chair, EAAFP Management Committee The EAAFP Secretariat is pleased to announce the dates and location for the 11th Meeting of the Partners (MOP11). The MOP11 and associated events will take place from 14 to 19 March 2021 in Brisbane, Queensland at the kind invitation of the Government of Australia and […]
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Bringing Good Connections to Life – EAAFP 2020 World Migratory Bird Day Webinar by Theunis Piersma
This year the theme of World Migratory Bird Day is “Birds Connect Our World”, to highlight the importance of conserving and restoring the ecological connectivity and integrity of ecosystems that support the natural movements of migratory birds. The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop us from being connected. In this Webinar, we have invited Prof. Theunis […]
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Celebrating World Albatross Day on 19 June, 2020!
To raise awareness that thousands of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters dying every year as a result of fisheries operations and other human-induced threats, the Agreement on the conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is inaugurating a World Albatross Day (WAD), to be held annually from 2020 on 19 June, the date the Agreement was signed in […]
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“Year of the Cranes” Story series #3 – What do farmers do in winter in Korea? They help to count cranes!
Every year after harvest of rice in Cheorwon, a place in Ro Korea close to the border of DPR Korea, farmers laid down their farming equipment and picked up other tools – binoculars and cameras – and contribute to the conservation of cranes. As Cheorwon is a fertile place with clean water flowing from the […]
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Birdwatchers, you can join us to conserve Black-faced Spoonbill! – Call for re-sighting records of individually-marked Black-faced Spoonbills
EAAFP Black-faced Spoonbill Working Group is a group of researchers working on a Black-faced Spoonbill conservation project. One of the goals is to quantify the variation in survival rate overtime and between wintering sites. We therefore need EVERY resighting record of individually-marked Black-faced Spoonbill. There have been about 700 Black-faced Spoonbill individually-marked so far and 500 […]
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”Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series #3 – Interview with China Coastal Waterbird Census Team”
Our 3rd interviewee of ”Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series is a group of people, they are China Coastal Waterbird Census (CCWC) Team, who are a group of armature bird watchers devoted to waterbird monitoring for 15 years. EAAFP: Can you briefly introduce China Coastal […]
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Nanchang Declaration released to urge effective conservation of wetlands and migratory birds during Poyang International Forum
On December 7th 2019, the “International forum on migratory bird protection of Poyang lake” was co-organized by Science Unit of EAAFP with Jianxi Provincial government, as a part of the 1st Poyang Lake International Birdwatching Week, nearby Poyang Lake, one of very important Flyway Network Sites and Ramsar Sites in the Yangtze River basin, broadly […]
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A National Workshop for Flyway Network Site Managers Held in Japan
From 30 to 31 October 2019, at the Lake Utonai Wildlife Conservation Center in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, a workshop for EAAFP Flyway Network Site (FNS) managers in Hokkaido area was held by the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) in cooperation with Tomakomai City. Total 24 participants from local government, visitor center, and stakeholders for the FNS […]
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EAAFP engagement at CMS COP13 with the theme of “Migratory species connect the planet and together we welcome them home”
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is one of EAAFP’s intergovernmental organization Partners and has been collaborating with EAAFP closely since the early stage when EAAFP was established. EAAFP has worked with CMS on promoting World Migratory Bird Day and developing the Species Action Plans for Black-faced Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, […]
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