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The African-Eurasian Flyways Project
Enhancing Conservation of the Critical
Network of Sites required by Migratory Waterbirds
on the African-Eurasian Flyways
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the Arctic to the Cape - the Wings
Over Wetlands (WOW) African-Eurasian
GEF Flyways Project is the largest international wetland and
waterbird conservation initiative ever to take place in the
African-Eurasian region. This 12 million dollar project aims to conserve
the critical areas needed by these migratory birds across Africa,
Europe, the Middle East, Central
Asia, Greenland and the Canadian Archipelago.
Through its unique flyway-scale conservation approach,
Wings Over Wetlands will not only
enhance international conservation efforts to improve the conditions
and management of waterbirds and key wetland sites in Africa and Eurasia,
it will also create a new web-based information portal that will be
an improved source of reliable information on migratory flight paths
across the continents. |
The Wings Over Wetlands Project will be launched and introduced to the public by an expert panel
at the
United Nations Premises in Bonn
on
20 November 2006
INVITATION TO PRESS CONFERENCE
English
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- FURTHER RESOURCES -
FACT SHEET: English
FIRST WOW UPDATE: English | Français
GEF PROJECT DOCUMENTS [ HTML | MS Word ]
For more information please also consult the
following sites:
Wetlands International
WOW Project Page
UNEP/AEWA
Website Announcement on WOW
http://www.wetlands.org/
http://www.birdlife.org/
http://www.unep-aewa.org/
http://www.ramsar.org/
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
http://www.gefweb.org/
http://www.unep.org/
http://www.unops.org/unops/
FOR MORE INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT
Florian Keil, Information Officer UNEP/AEWA,
on Tel: +49 (0) 228 815 2451, E-mail: info@flywaysproject.org
Alex Kaat, Head of Communication at Wetlands International, on Tel: +31 (0)
50601917, E-mail: Alex.Kaat@Wetlands.org
Adrian Long, Head of Communications at BirdLife International, on Tel: +44
(0)1223 279812, E-mail: Adrian.Long@birdlife.org
Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General at the Ramsar Convention, on Tel:
+41 22 999 01 71, E-mail: davidson@ramsar.org