Both publications can be downloaded from the AEWA website here.

AEWA Technical Series No. 13 - The Report, prepared by Wetlands International on the Conservation Status of Migratory Waterbirds in the Agreement Area gives an overview of the current status of migratory waterbirds in the African-Eurasian region. It includes information on the size of the various populations, their breeding ranges, wintering distributions and migration routes, and the long-term trends in their population levels.

The report shows estimates for 98% of the populations covered by the Agreement (509 out of 521), but also warns that the quality of many of these estimates remain low. Population trend information is now available for 364 out of the 521 populations covered, which unfortunately reveal that nearly twice as many populations show decreasing rather than increasing trends. The trends in Asia show the most alarming numbers, five times as many populations in Asia are decreasing (55%) as those increasing (11%).

Overall, the report reveals that the trend status of waterbirds in the Agreement area worsened between 1999 and 2006, which together with the figures for Asia underlines the need for all countries along the birds' flyways to increase efforts to conserve waterbirds and their critical habitats in and beyond the AEWA Agreement area.

AEWA Technical Series No. 14 – The International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Maccoa Duck (Oxyura maccoa) gives an overview of the current status of the main populations of the Maccoa Duck remaining in Africa and identifies ways to better conserve them at both national and international level.

Overall, the report shows that the conservation status of the Maccoa Duck is worse than previously understood and that more research and conservation actions are required to quantify the conservation risks. While the revised estimate of the total population presented in this report amounts to 9,000-11,750 birds and the southern population (Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Lesotho) has now stabilised, the report also warns that the northern population (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Eritrea) is in rapid decline.

The Single Species Action Plan for the Maccoa Duck was commissioned by AEWA to the African Gamebird Research Education and Development Trust (AGRED), which also co-funded this project. This Action Plan was compiled by a team of experts under the general leadership of Dr. Aldo Berruti; the drafts of the plan went through rigorous consultations and include comments received from a large number of experts, governmental officials from the range states, as well as from the AEWA Technical Committee.