Amazing travel distance and routes of Ruddy Turnstones discovered
Posted on April 14, 2010Continue readingResearchers from Australia have discovered amazing travel distances and routes of Ruddy Turnstones by tracking their journeys with light-sensor geolocators. Fascinated by their findings, they attached geolocators to another 60 Ruddy Turnstones in Australia and are waiting for a further exciting result in season 2010-11. Please download Birds Australia E-News of April 2010 and visit […]
New waterbird publication, Status of Waterbirds in Asia
Posted on March 24, 2010Continue readingWetlands International has gathered the results of twenty years of waterbird monitoring in Asia in the new publication entitled Status of Waterbirds in Asia – Results of the Asian Waterbird Census: 1987-2007. The results of the analysis in Status of Waterbirds in Asia include information on waterbird numbers at a large variety of sites designated […]
New International Action Plans
Posted on March 24, 2010Continue readingBirdLife International, supported by the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), has compiled International Action Plans for three highly threatened waterbirds in Asia: Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Chinese Crested Tern, and Black-faced Spoonbill. The action plans for the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) and Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini) were launched at the fourth meeting of the […]
AEWA News Release
Posted on March 16, 2010Continue readingThe World Migratory Bird Day 2010 focuses on globally threatened migratory birds. More »
BirdLife International News Release
Posted on March 5, 2010Continue readingBlack-faced Spoonbill numbers up again as Action Plans are launched. More »
Fourth Meeting of Partners (MOP4) of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership in Songdo
Posted on March 2, 2010Continue readingThe Fourth Meeting of Partners (MOP4) of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership was held in Songdo, Republic of Korea, 23-24 February 2010. Seventy-four delegates including Partners and Potential Partners from eleven governments, two intergovernmental organizations, six international NGOs and several Korean provincial governments and NGOs participated in the meeting. A full Report (Minutes) […]
Welcoming a new Partner, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)
Posted on March 2, 2010Continue readingWildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) became the 21st Partner of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership on 23 Feb 2010 which coincided with the opening day of the 4th Meeting of Partners. Partners warmly welcomed Dr. Baz Hughes who represented WWT at MOP4.
New Flyway Network Site in Japan
Posted on February 18, 2010Continue readingThe latest addition to the network of important sites for migratory waterbirds (the Flyway Site Network), Kejo-numa in Japan, was celebrated at a ceremony in Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on 14 February 2010. Kejo-numa is Japan’s 28th Network site and comprises a system of water storage wetland and rice paddy fields. It meets Network […]
Fourth Meeting of Partners
Posted on January 14, 2010Continue readingThe Fourth Meeting of Partners of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) is scheduled for Tuesday 23 February and Wednesday 24 February 2010. The meeting will be held in Songdo, Incheon City, Republic of Korea and arrangements will be handled by the EAAFP Secretariat team.
The new Chairman of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership has now been appointed
Posted on October 19, 2009Continue readingCongratulations to Dr JEONG Yeon-Man, Director-General, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea on his appointment as Chairman of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership. One of the first roles of the EAAF Partnership Chairman has been the appointment of the Chief Executive of the Secretariat. The position of Chief Executive of the EAAF […]
