WMBD 2021 Reports - Eaaflyway

October 2021

Cambodia

Event name: World Migratory Bird Day event in Toul Pantaley Boeung Sna Multiple Used Area, Cambodia

Organizer:

-General Directorate of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection, Ministry of Environment of Cambodia

-Toul Pantaley Boeung Sner Community

-Department of Environment Prey Veng Province

Participants: Total 56 peoples from various position.

Summary: This was the first World Migratory Bird Day event in Toul Pantaley Boeung Sna Multiple Used Area (TPBS), a newly designed protected area located in Prey Veng Province. TPBS is a relatively flat area located in the eastern floodplain of Mekong River and is subject to the influence of the Mekong River with the seasonal variations inflows. The inundated forest in the TPBS also home of millions of waterbirds for both foraging and nesting sites. Due to the dramatic drop of covid-19 cases in the country with high vaccination rate, we could switch from online events to organize the onsite WMBD event in this newly designed protected wetland with students and local communities. Read more about their activities.

For more photos visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eaafp/sets/72177720295434810/

Bangladesh

Event name: Celebration of WMBD 2021 through awareness campaign, online discussion and developing promotional materials for bird conservation

Organizer: Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in collaboration with SAUSC, BBCF and local Forest Division, Proborton Foundation and Muktir Bondhon Foundation (NGO).

Participants: Students from universities, colleges, school and madrasha, community people, civil society representatives, NGO representative, birds hunters, Forest Department officials, researchers and policy makers etc.

Summary: Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Science Club organized an awareness program on the conservation of migratory birds and other standard issues with underprivileged children at a school managed by the Proborton Foundation at Mirpur in the capital city, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The event featured an awareness-raising animated movie and a documentary on migratory birds of Bangladesh. A session was also taken to train how to draw birds. Latterly, a bird drawing competition was organized for the children. Read more about their activities.

For more photos visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eaafp/sets/72157720232582163/

Bangladesh

Event name: Awareness Raising Campaign and Workshop About the Protection and Conservation of The Migratory Birds in the Haor Basin Area in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh.

Organizer: Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Participants:

Approximate 200 participants.

In online, almost 2500 people seen our activity through different social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

Summary: Together with International Veterinary Student’s Association (IVSA)-Sylhet Agricultural University and Sylhet Veterinary Services, we celebrated World Migratory Bird Day 2021 on 30th October 2021 at Baluchor Government Primary School, Sylhet. We arranged this program in an area where every year many migratory birds come during the winter. Therefore, it’s essential to increase awareness among the local people and children about the importance of the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats, which is the main goal of our event. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX5nr1s

Bangladesh

Event name: Shorebird conservation campaign

Organizer: Bangladesh Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation Project

Participants: Around 350 students and 14 teachers were present.

Summary: Bangladesh Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation Project (BSCP hereafter) was formed in 2009. Since then, BSCP has been working in Bangladesh Shorebird research and conservation focusing on critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. BSCP already conducted some pioneering activities in Bangladesh. In order to motivate and aware people and local community, BSCP has been organizing small to large scale awareness campaign. Celebrating World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) one of them. Under their regular conservation activity programme this year BSCP organised two WMBD events at local schools at Sonadia Island, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and at Bashkhali, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Sonadia is a flyway network site and one of the main wintering grounds of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Where up to 25 Spoon-billed Sandpiper were recorded in recent years along with other threatened shorebirds. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX96Tuk

Myanmar

Event name: World Migratory Bird Day event at Nanthar Island and Mayyu Estuary

Organizer:Nature Conservation Society-Myanmar (NCS)

Participants: Expected about 5000 local community members who living nearby Ramsar Site.

Summary: In celebration of the World Migratory Bird Day 2021, annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats, the Ibaraki Academy, a non-profit organization based in General Santos City (GenSan), Philippines, partnered with the Youth Affairs and Development Office of GenSan (YADO), Kidlikasan. Kabataan. Kalikasan, Yabong Philippines, and City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of General Santos City to celebrate the World Migratory Birds Day 2021 in GenSan, with the theme: “Sing, fly, soar like a bird.” The event was funded by the East-Asia Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) through the WMBD Small Grant Fund 2021. The 2-day celebration was attended by a total of 39 participants. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX6mWFC

Philippines

Event name: GenSan World Migratory Bird Day

Organizer: The Ibara

ki Academy together with Kidlikasan and Yabong Philippines
Participants: There were a total of 36 participants, 32 out of 36 were college students and 4 participants were high school students.

For more photos visit: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX1nXBn

Watch the event video of the Day [here]

Indonesia

Event name: Migrasi Burung di Tengah Pandemi
Organizer:– Biologi Pecinta Alam dan Studi Lingkungan Hidup (BIOPALAS)– Himpunan Mahasiswa Biologi USU (HIMABIO USU)
Participants: There are 75 participants for the event. 45 children participants for the counseling in school, and there are 30 participants for the counseling in Universitas Sumatera Utara.Summary: The World Migratory Bird Day is a celebration for all of conservation activist working on nature biodiversity across the world. In Indonesia, migratory bird conservation activity is so low. In fact, civilian doesn’t give attention at all for the migratory bird. This is the problem that we are facing right now in our country. Also, COVID-19 became a new burden to us to face, the government has made a regulation to avoid crowd and giving no travel access to unvaccinated person. But, with the help of our university, all of us got vaccinated in time. Read more about their activitiesFor more photos visit: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmX6apPA

May 2021

Australia

Event name: Stories of Home
Organizer: The Overwintering Project
Participants: 12-20 members of the local youth communities (aged 14-18) with migrant or Indigenous backgrounds, 200 participants of School students, teachers, and parents, 50 childrens

Summary: Between March 6 and May 23, 2021, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery exhibited the Overwintering Project: Westernport. The exhibition focussed on Melbourne’s Western Port Bay as an internationally significant migratory shorebird habitat. The exhibition featured 20 curated artists, 13 of whom have produced new work in a variety of media inspired by the local Western Port environment. Their work appeared in conjunction with the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio, a growing collection of 300+ original prints made by artists from Australia and New Zealand in response to the unique nature of their local migratory shorebird habitat. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit https://flic.kr/s/aHsmW39Prd

Australia

Event name: Stories of Home
Organizer: The Overwintering Project
Participants: 50 participants

Summary: As a continuation of the 2021 May World Migratory Bird Day event, “Stories of Home,” Australian Artist Kate Gorringe-Smith organised an interactive exhibition “Stories of Home” at the Joel Gallery, Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre in October 2022. The event consisted of a poetry and printing making workshop for 35 refugee students aged 14-18 from Dandenong High School, and the exhibition at Joel gallery. Read more about their activities.

Australia

Event name: ‘Winaityinaityi Pangkara – The Country of the Birds’
– A short film by Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary in South Australia
Organizer: Friends of Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary (FAIBS)
Participants: FAIBS contacts, BirdsSA members, four local government Councils, Green Adelaide, and Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, local newspapers and local environment centres, and the general public.

Summary: ‘Winaityinaityi Pangkara – The Country of the Birds’: a film contributing to the celebration of World Migratory Bird Day, May 8th, 2021.

Jeffrey Newchurch and Lynette Crocker, two Northern Kaurna Elders integral to the establishment of Winaityinaityi Pangkara, the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary in South Australia, reflect on the importance of this place to their People. They are joined by ecologist Joan Gibbs from the Friends of Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary.

The Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary is one the southern-most roosting and feeding sites for thousands of migratory shorebirds that annually use the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Read more about their activities

Philippines

Event name: Conservation of Wildlife Migratory Bird and Wetland Areas in Misamis Occidental, Philippines through Advocacy and Capacity Development
Organizer: Misamis University, Philippines
Participants: About 1500 participants including Sangguniang Kabataan, Barangay Officials, PNP-Maritime, DENR Employees, Faculty, staff, students, and Alumni of Misamis University.

Summary: The Misamis University, Philippines has partnered East Asia Australasia Flyway Partnership, Secretariat in Republic of Korea in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, and the Department of Interior and Local Government Units of Cities of Tangub, Ozamiz and Oroquieta and the Municipalities of Bonifacio, Clarin, Tudela, Sinacaban,J imenez, Pana-on and Aloran . The celebration of the World Migratory Bird Day 2021 with the theme ‘ Sing, Fly, Soar like a Bird” was translated to “Pag-awit, Paglupad, Pataas Sama sa usa ka Langgam” in Filipino Visayan Language. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVW3zCU

Mongolia

Event name: Celebrated World Migratory Bid Day – 2021 at Chukh Bird Research Station (CBRS), Eastern Mongolia
Organizer: Chukh Bird Research Station (CBRS) of Mongolian Bird Conservation Center of Mongolia (MBCC)
Participants: Total 35 people which were consisted of 17 School students, 6 people from University, and 12 local people.

Summary: We celebrated World Migratory Bird Day – 2021 on 10^th of August at Chukh lake, Eastern Mongolia during the peak period of shorebird migration. There were a total of 35 people including school children, university students and local people have participated in our organized event. Although some changes were made to our program due to the restriction of the Covid-19 pandemic, we organized our event following the infection control regime such as put on mask and sanitize hands for all participants before entry. The event was organized in Chukh Bird Research Station. Mr. Amarkhuu Gungaa who is a Research director of Mongolian Bird Conservation Center opened the event and after that Ms. Uchrakhzaya Tserenbat, a coordinator of CBRS introduced their two years result of migratory shorebirds monitoring at Chukh lake. After that Ms. Baasansuren Erdenechimeg presented about migration studies of shorebirds, cranes and some species of raptors that tracked from Eastern Mongolia last three years. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWF4j4t

Indonesia

Event name: World Migratory Bird Day 2021 event in Indonesia
Organizer: Himpunan Mahasiswa Pecinta Unggas (HIMPUS)
Participants: About 300people in total including School students, teachers, or parents, University students, Researchers, Scientists, Birdwatchers, Site managers for flyway site and wetlands, and Decision or policy makers

Summary: The celebration World Migratory Bird Day 2021 in Indonesia by the Himpunan Mahasiswa Pecinta Unggas (HIMPUS) in Aceh, Indonesia was a success. Even though it is still in a pandemic situation, HIMPUS still carries out the World Migratory Bird Day every year with various public awareness activities in protecting migratory birds in the world. This celebration was held on 1-2 May 2021 and was attended by nearly 500 people. These activities are carried out through online media and in-person activities in compliance with existing health protocols. The enthusiasm of the community is very good in celebrating World Migratory Bird Day 2021 in Indonesia. The participants were almost followed from various regions in Indonesia. The participants were students, university students, researchers and bird watchers in Indonesia. The activity also invited several presenters who are experienced in the world of migratory birds in Indonesia. Read more about their activities

For more photos visit https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVyETLY

DPR Korea

Event name: World Migratory Bird Day 2021 event in DPRK
Organizer: Ministry of Land and Environment Protection
Participants: 50 people of school students, teachers, and parents, 5 people of researchers and scientists, and 10 people of site managers for flyway site and wetlands.

Summary: Mundok Migratory Bird Reserve (MMBR) in Mundok County, South Phyongan Province in the DPRK is located in the key point of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) and plays critical role in the conservation of wetland ecosystem and migratory waterfowls. The Reserve regularly supports more than 80,000 population of >120 species of migratory birds (including globally and regionally threatened species) during all seasons, especially spring and autum. For its ecological importance, the site was designated as Ramsar Site and EAAF Network Site.

Russia

Event name: World Migratory Bird Day 2021 event in Russia
Organizer: Omsk Regional Youth Public Organization «Ecological Watch of Siberia», Omsk Branch of the Union for the Conservation of Birds of Russia and other stakeholders.
Participants: On May 8, 2021, the event «World Migratory Bird Day 2021» was held on the Specially Protected Natural Territory Natural Park «Bird Harbor» in the сenter Omsk (Russia) for 380 participants from 9:00 to 20:00 for 6 different groups due to the Covid-19 protection. This included 20 members of the Omsk Regional Youth Public Organization, approximately 100 school children, 50 professional painters, 5 governmental officers, and 150 people of NGOs.

Summary: For the first time in the center of the city of Omsk on a specially protected natural area of the natural park «Bird Harbor» our event WMBD «Omsk oblast is the center of migratory routes of birds of Eurasia» to the development of love for migratory birds of Russia was held. The organizer was Omsk Regional Youth Public Organization «Ecological Watch of Siberia». More then 380 children, school students, teachers or parents, university students, birdwatchers and citizens of the Omsk oblast received their first lesson in democratic participation in bird watching of their native land. Read more about their activities

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