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Forum members and work-plan enthusiasts
seeking a Joint Work Plan amongst migratory species MEAs
need look no further. Long in the gestation, a three-way
Joint Work Plan has recently been concluded
amongst the Convention on Wetlands, the Convention on Migratory
Species CMS), and the
CMS's African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA).
Earlier versions have come and gone and
at least one has been greeted warmly by Ramsar COP8 in 2002
(COP8 DOC.24),
but in the fullness of time a final agreed version was signed
at the "Waterbirds Around the World"
Global Flyways Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 5 April
2004, by Nick Davidson from Ramsar,
Arnulf Müller-Helmbrecht, Executive Secretary of CMS,
and Bert Lenten, Executive Secretary of AEWA.
The new JWP covers these areas of work:
Joint promotion of the benefits to countries of participation
in the Ramsar Convention and CMS, and, in Africa and Eurasia,
AEWA; Cooperation between secretariats,
scientific and technical, and other bodies; Joint actions
for the conservation and wise use of wetland-dependent
migratory species and their habitats; Data collection, storage
and analysis;
and New Agreements and other related actions under CMS for
migratory species, including endangered migratory
species and species with an unfavourable conservation status.
Naturally one hopes that this new agreement
will propel us forward to productive increases in the already
fruitful collaborative relations amongst the three instruments.
Here you will find the CMS's press
release on the event, drafted by Veronika Lenarz, and
the text
of the new agreement.
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